Definitions for invent

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Spelling: [in-vent]
IPA: /ɪnˈvɛnt/

Invent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in invent (einntv).

Definitions for invent

verb (used with object)

  1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance:
  2. to produce or create with the imagination:
  3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false):
  4. Archaic. to come upon; find.

Origin of invent

1425-75; late Middle English invented (past participle) found, discovered (see -ed2) Latin inventus, past participle of invenīre to encounter, come upon, fin

Examples for invent

I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.

"That's as good a description of him as you could invent," he said.

I should be b-a-d, and I should sit up nights to invent new ways of evil.

By using an alter ego, he liberates himself, relaxes himself so he can invent freely.

What could she invent, so to be before him in giving her charity?

A telegraph operator, in their eyes, has no business to invent.

As a Harvard undergraduate, he used systolic blood pressure readings to invent the lie detector test.

I will move detachments and advance brigades, and invent strategy.

Did McCarthy invent the portrayal of violence in fiction, or should that laurel go to Homer?

Not surprisingly, the losers were now winning engineers; one of the MIT graduates had gone on to invent ear buds for Apple.

Word Value for invent
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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