1. (v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

2. (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.

3. (v. t.) To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

beget break ground break the ice breed bring forth bring into being call into being coin conceit conceive conceptualize concoct contrive cook up counterfeit create design determine develop devise discover dream up engender envision evolve experience imaginatively fabricate fake fancy fantasize fictionalize find find out forge formulate frame fudge generate get give being to give rise to hatch hatch up head head up hit hit upon hoke up hunt down ideate imagine improvise inaugurate initiate innovate introduce introduce new blood lead lead off lead the way locate make do with make innovations make up manufacture mature mint mold neologize neoterize originate pioneer plan precede procreate produce rediscover renew renovate revolutionize run down run to earth shape spawn stand first strike strike out suppose take the initiative take the lead take the plunge think out think up trace trace down track down trump up turn out vamp up