contrive
verb
[ kənˈtrʌɪv ]
• create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice.
• "his opponents contrived a cabinet crisis"
Similar:
bring about,
engineer,
cause to happen,
manufacture,
orchestrate,
stage-manage,
create,
devise,
concoct,
construct,
design,
formulate,
plan,
work out,
think up,
dream up,
come up with,
fabricate,
plot,
hatch,
wangle,
set up,
cook up,
procure,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French contreuve-, stressed stem of controver ‘imagine, invent’, from medieval Latin contropare ‘compare’.
