Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: concoction
IPA transcription: [kənk'ɑkʃən]
Pronunciations of concoction
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: confection, concoction
    Meaning: the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components
  • Synonyms: concoction
    Meaning: the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose; "his testimony was a concoction"; "she has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories"
  • Synonyms: concoction
    Meaning: an occurrence of an unusual mixture; "it suddenly spewed out a thick green concoction"
  • Synonyms: concoction, mixture, intermixture
    Meaning: any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
Usage examples
  • For drink, we took some wonderful sticky concoction of Harris's, which you mixed with water and called lemonade, plenty of tea, and a bottle of whisky, in case, as George said, we got upset.
  • Lincoln, from behind the counter--his pulpit--not merely repeated items of information which he had heard, but also recited doggerel satire of his own concoction, punning and emitting sparks of wit.
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