Definition of "confabulate" [con•fab•u•late]

• To talk casually; chat. (verb-intransitive)
• Psychology To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I sketch rather than describe in detail, letting the readers confabulate to fill in the whole picture."
• "Rogue artists who confabulate our notions of what art is and isn't are always going to come along, and we should be grateful for them, even encourage them."
• "Henry Sidgwick, you are not only highly selective in the questions you choose to answer, you evade answering the questions, prevaricate and confabulate."