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devise
devise
verb
Definition of DEVISE
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination <she quickly devised a new scheme when the first one failed>
Synonyms concoct, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)
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