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The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients. / A mixture prepared in such a way. / Something made up, an invention. / (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).

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concoction

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Source Word

concoction

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kənˈkɒkʃən/

Noun

countable uncountable obsolete figuratively

The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients. / A mixture prepared in such a way. / Something made up, an invention. / (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).

Japanese Meaning

複数の成分を混ぜ合わせ、薬、食物、その他の物質を調製する行為 / そのようにして作られた混合物 / 作り話、でっち上げたもの、考案されたもの / （古い意味で）食物などの消化

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She spent the afternoon perfecting an herbal concoction to soothe his cough.

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彼女は午後を費やして、彼の咳を和らげるための薬草の調合を完成させた。

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Sense（1）

The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.

Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.

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Sense（2）

A mixture prepared in such a way.

Sense（3）

Something made up, an invention.

Sense（4）

(obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).

[Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]

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Sense（5）

(obsolete, figuratively) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.

At last , the physicians after a long and stormy voyage , see land ; they have so good signs of the concoction of the disease , as that they may safely proceed to purge .

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