invent

To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.

To make up; fabricate.

To come upon; light upon; meet with; find.

To find out by original study or contrivance; create by a new use or combination of means; devise the form, construction, composition, method, or principle of.

In general, to produce by contrivance; fabricate; concoet; devise.