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contrive
[kuhn-trahyv]
verb (used with object)
to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent.
The author contrived a clever plot.
Synonyms: ,to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage.
He contrived to gain their votes.
to plot (evil, treachery, etc.).
Synonyms: ,
verb (used without object)
to form designs; plan.
to plot.
Synonyms:
contrive
/ əˈٰɪ /
verb
(tr) to manage (something or to do something), esp by means of a trick; engineer
he contrived to make them meet
(tr) to think up or adapt ingeniously or elaborately
he contrived a new mast for the boat
to plot or scheme (treachery, evil, etc)
Other 51Թ Forms
- contrivable adjective
- contriver noun
- precontrive verb
- uncontriving adjective
- Dzˈٰ noun
- Dzˈٰ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of contrive1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of contrive1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Did other parties contrive to exclude Reform UK?
He fell for her image and contrived to meet her, and despite Twain’s many eccentricities, her distinguished family accepted him.
“Trying to achieve these cuts wholesale through a contrived and meaningless quota could deprive the military of significant operational acumen at a dangerous time in our history,” a Pentagon source told me on background.
But our associates, who are assigned to each show, adapt the teaching of the illusions to the needs of the performers, because illusions have to feel natural to not appear contrived.
Her death, largely contrived by Cromwell at the behest of his prince, bookends the 2015 adaptation and opens the 2025 sequel, creating a kind of illusion that the ten years separating them never existed.
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