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devising

verb , present participle of devise

Synonyms and Antonyms of devising

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

she quickly devised a new scheme when the first one failed

Synonyms of devising

concocting, constructing, contriving, cooking (up), drumming up, excogitating, fabricating, inventing, making up, manufacturing, thinking (up), trumping up, vamping (up)

Words Related to devising

coining, designing, hatching, producing

daydreaming, dreaming, fantasizing

conceiving, envisaging, envisioning, imagining, picturing, visioning, visualizing

ad-libbing, extemporizing, improvising

Phrases Synonymous with devising

Near Antonyms of devising

cloning, copycatting, copying, duplicating, imitating, mimicking, reduplicating, replicating, reproducing

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