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v. To plan with cleverness or ingenuity; devise: contrive ways to amuse the children.

v. To invent or fabricate, especially by improvisation: contrived a swing from hanging vines.

v. To plan with evil intent; scheme: contrived a plot to seize power.

v. To bring about, as by scheming; manage: somehow contrived to get past the guards unnoticed.

verb-intransitive. To form plans or schemes.

v. To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

v. To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.

v. To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

v. To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

verb-intransitive. To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

To invent; devise; plan.

To manage, by a device, stratagem, plan, or scheme: with an infinitive as object: as, he contrived to gain his point.

Synonyms To design, project, plot, concoct, hatch, form, frame, brew.

To form schemes or designs; plan; scheme.

To wear away; spend.

To make out; discover; imagine: as, what had become of him I could not contrive.

v. put or send forth

v. make or work out a plan for; devise

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

"Fathers are fathers of the worst sort, such as contrive to keep their children in a perpetual state of infancy, that they may exercise perpetual and absolute dominion over them."

contrived    contrives    contriving   

create by mental act    create mentally   

devise    construct    invent    plant   

contriver    contrivance   

concert    project    plan    invent    discover    hatch    design    plot    scheme    shift   

Clive    Dr    Dr.    alive    arrive    clyve    connive    deprive    derive    dive