Words and phrases that have a meaning related to contrive: (159 results)
Often used in the same context:
concoct, conspire, inveigle, connive, obfuscate, invent, conjure, suborn, aggrandise, dissimulate, bemuse, elide, enmesh, collude, unknot, philosophise, orchestrate, commodify, feign, backbite, bewitch, explicate, fabricate, satirise, bastardise, insinuate, manipulate, importune, pretend, embellish, beguile, extenuate, cogitate, bewilder, discombobulate, backstab, wangle, deconstruct, perpetuate, compartmentalise, prevaricate, sally forth, confecting, instigate, mangle, mythologise, sentimentalise, cohere, plagiarise, cadge, posit, dissemble, finagle, confound, prate, prettify, relativize, bamboozle, devise, bastardize, filch, stupefy, denude, ramify, chivvy, balkanise, stultify, ravish, disenchant, cajole, juxtapose, induce, coarsen, vivify, discomfit, outwit, conceive, contort, ennoble, scandalize, amuse, transmute, atomize, fictionalize, externalise, engender, mythologize, nobble, outmanoeuvre, interweave, betray, highjack, aggrandize, dramatize, frustrate, usurp, edify, verbalise, tu quoque, impute, traduce, analogize, serve, speak, think, be, cease, correspond, destitute, get, hath, hold, holds, respond, slew, subsist, will, abide, accords, acquire, affords, aud, suggest, diese, immoral, inhumane, snch, beft, belter, better, certain, dread, fuch, hetter, objectionable, some, such, sucli, sueh, these, untried, abhorrent
Appears in the definition of:
concert
More general:
Also try:create by mental act, create mentally, direct, send
— Nouns for contrive: day, ways, matters, means, creation, principles, opportunities, insurrections, countermeasures, racks, mischief, more...
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