confabulate
/kənˈfæb.jə.leɪt/
verb
- To have an informal conversation; to chat.
- The old friends confabulated for hours at the café.
- We confabulated about our favorite books during lunch.
- The team confabulated before making a decision.
- To fabricate or fill in gaps in memory with false details, often unconsciously (used in psychology).
- People with certain memory conditions may confabulate without realizing it.
- The patient began to confabulate stories about his childhood.
- The witness seemed to confabulate details that never happened.