transitive verb. To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.

transitive verb. To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive.

To digest.

To purify or sublime; refine by removing the gross or extraneous matter.

To ripen; develop.

To combine and prepare the materials of, as in cookery; hence, to get up, devise, plan, contrive, plot, etc.: as, to concoct a dinner or a bowl of punch; to concoct a scheme or a conspiracy.

To mature; ripen.

To digest.

transitive verb. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

transitive verb. To purify or refine chemically.

transitive verb. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients.

transitive verb. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

transitive verb. To mature or perfect; to ripen.

verb. to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking

verb. to contrive something using skill or ingenuity

verb. devise or invent

verb. make a concoction (of) by mixing

verb. invent

verb. prepare or cook by mixing ingredients

"Iraq, "concoct" - here I agree with you, but I couldn't come up with another word that adequately conveyed the idea that the US / UK had some agenda regarding Iraq."

plant  

concoction  

concocter  concoctive  concoctor  

amalgamate  commix  cook  cook up  fabricate  

blocked  clocked  cocked  docked  flocked  

accessory  accompanying  adjuvant  admix  alloy  

concocted  concocting  concocts