Usually means: Creating stories to fill gaps.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. confabulating: Merriam-Webster
  2. confabulating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. confabulating: Vocabulary.com
  4. confabulating: Wordnik
  5. confabulating: Wiktionary
  6. Confabulating, confabulating: Dictionary.com
  7. Confabulating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Confabulating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. confabulating: FreeDictionary.org
  10. confabulating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. confabulating: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See confabulate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (confabulate)

verb:  (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
verb:  (intransitive) To confer.
verb:  (ambitransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
▸ Also see confabulate


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