1. to fill in gaps in memory with fabricated or imagined details, often unconsciously
Usage: psychology; medical
2. to chat in a friendly, informal way
Usage: formal

Examples

• The patient confabulates details about events that never happened.
• After the accident, she confabulates memories to fill in what she cannot remember.
• The elderly man confabulates stories about his past when his memory fails.
• Brain injury patients sometimes confabulate without realizing it.
• The two friends confabulated over coffee for hours.
• They confabulated about their shared experiences from college.