Confabulate

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  • intransitive verb. To talk casually; chat.
  • intransitive verb. To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To talk familiarly together; chat; prattle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To speak casually with; to chat.
  • verb. To confer.
  • verb. To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. have a conference in order to talk something over
  • verb. unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory
  • verb. talk socially without exchanging too much information
  • Word Usage
    "I sketch rather than describe in detail, letting the readers confabulate to fill in the whole picture."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chat  converse  prattle