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To build or design something using one's imagination or ingenuity
“He writes poetry in both English and Mohawk and works to devise an improved written form for the Mohawk language.”
To come up with a plan or idea
“Tomorrow, we will devise a strategy for increasing our profits.”
To put together (something) hastily or in an improvised manner
“The same spark of creativity that had enabled them to devise a makeshift sail on Nuzulu helped them on the Derwent.”
To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated or intensive efforts
To carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
To make a false show or pretense of
To come up with a false account or representation of something
To consider or give serious or careful thought to
To give, especially by way of a will after one's passing
To calculate and record the details of
To hold or display a specified thought or emotion
Plural for a thing that is inherited
Plural for an act of making a legal transfer of a right or liability
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