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invents

invents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of invent.

Meaning of invent

Verb

invent (third-person singular simple present invents, present participle inventing, simple past and past participle invented)

  1. To design a new process or mechanism.
    • After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
    Synonyms:
    conceive
  2. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
    • I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
  3. (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.
    • Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about invents

What is invents the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Invents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of invent.

Words near invents in the dictionary

  1. inventours
  2. inventress
  3. inventresses
  4. inventrices
  5. inventrix
  6. invents
  7. inventurous
  8. Inver
  9. Inver Grove Heights
  10. Inver-
  11. inveracious

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