To attract sharks, scientists prepare a special bloody bait concoction known as "chum".
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Concoction
//kənˈkɒkʃən//
Synonyms for "concoction" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
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Related words (39)
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1 entriesderived
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- concocció noun (mixture so prepared)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 混合物 noun (mixture so prepared)
Dutch
3 entries- brouwsel noun (preparing of substance from many ingredients)
- mengsel noun (mixture so prepared)
- preparaat noun (something made up)
Finnish
3 entries- keitos noun (mixture so prepared)
- keitos noun (something made up)
- sekoittaminen noun (preparing of substance from many ingredients)
German
4 entries- Gemisch noun (mixture so prepared)
- Mischen noun (preparing of substance from many ingredients)
- Mischung noun (mixture so prepared)
- Zubereitung noun (preparing of substance from many ingredients)
Greek
1 entries- μείγμα noun (mixture so prepared)
Hebrew
1 entries- מִרְקַחַת noun (mixture so prepared)
Italian
4 entries- accrocco noun (something made up)
- intruglio noun (preparing of substance from many ingredients)
- lavoro abborracciato noun (something made up)
- macchinazione noun (something made up)
Macedonian
2 entries- напивка noun (mixture so prepared)
- напиток noun (mixture so prepared)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Brie noun (preparing of substance from many ingredients)
- Brie noun (mixture so prepared)
Polish
1 entries- konkokcja noun (mixture so prepared)
Spanish
4 entries- brebaje noun (mixture so prepared)
- cocimiento noun (mixture so prepared)
- concocción noun (mixture so prepared)
- mejunje noun (mixture so prepared)
Swedish
4 entries- brygd noun (preparing of substance from many ingredients)
- brygd noun (mixture so prepared)
- hopkok noun (mixture so prepared)
- påhitt noun (something made up)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Apparently, it was his jealous mistress who prepared that nasty chemical concoction. I hear the wife took one sip of her morning coffee and collapsed without so much as a word.
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On the table, reposed a nut cake which she had baked that morning . . . a particularly toothsome concoction iced with pink icing and adorned with walnuts.
Source: tatoeba (5970914)
Sami made Layla drink this horrible concoction.
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