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contrivesverbpresent tense third-person singular of contrive to create or think of by clever use of the imaginationcontrived abstract metal sculptures using old household utensils concocts, constructs, cooks (up), devises, drums up, excogitates, fabricates, invents, makes up, manufactures, thinks (up), trumps up, vamps (up) coins, designs, hatches, producesdaydreams, dreams, fantasizesconceives, envisages, envisions, imagines, pictures, visions, visualizesad-libs, extemporizes, improvises comes up with clones, copies, copycats, duplicates, imitates, mimics, reduplicates, replicates, reproduces to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsthe mischievous boys were always contriving and trying to pull the prank that would be the talk of the school colludes, compasses, connives, conspires, intrigues, machinates, plots, puts up, schemes counterplotsbrews, concocts, cooks (up), devises, hatchesengineers, jockeys, maneuvers, manipulatesdesigns, frames, lays out, maps, plans, shapes to plan out usually with subtle skill or carecontrived a way of planning the surprise party without their catching on to it engineers, finagles, finesses, frames, machinates, maneuvers, manipulates, masterminds, negotiates, wangles arranges, concerts, concludes, hammers out, works outangles (for), compasses, intrigues, plots, schemesconnivesbrews, concocts, cooks (up), hatchescaptains, commands, conducts, directs, handles, manages, quarterbacks, runsgerrymanders blows, bobbles, botches, bungles, butchers, flubs, fumbles, gums (up), louses up, mangles, messes (up), mishandles, muffs |