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machinatedverbpast tense of machinate to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsa trio of courtiers who were discovered to be machinating against the queen colluded, compassed, connived, conspired, contrived, intrigued, plotted, put up, schemed counterplottedbrewed, concocted, cooked (up), devised, hatchedengineered, jockeyed, maneuvered, manipulateddesigned, framed, laid out, mapped, planned, shaped to plan out usually with subtle skill or carethe hackers machinated a way to steal credit numbers from the company's Web site contrived, engineered, finagled, finessed, framed, maneuvered, manipulated, masterminded, negotiated, wangled arranged, concerted, concluded, hammered out, worked outangled (for), compassed, intrigued, plotted, schemedconnivedbrewed, concocted, cooked (up), hatchedcaptained, commanded, conducted, directed, handled, managed, quarterbacked, ran(also chiefly dialectal run)gerrymandered blew, bobbled, botched, bungled, butchered, flubbed, fumbled, gummed (up), loused up, mangled, messed (up), mishandled, muffed |