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General (30 matching dictionaries)

1. contrive: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. contrive: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. contrive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. contrive: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. contrive: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. contrive: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Contrive, contrive: Wordnik [home, info]
8. contrive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. contrive: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. contrive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. contrive: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
12. contrive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
13. contrive: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
14. Contrive, contrive: Dictionary.com [home, info]
15. contrive: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
16. contrive: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
17. contrive: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
18. Contrive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. Contrive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. contrive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. contrive: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. contrive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. contrive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
24. contrive: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. contrive: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
26. contrive: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
27. contrive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
28. contrive: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

29. CONTRIVE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

30. contrive: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

31. contrive: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

32. contrive: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (contrive) ▸ verb:  come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort ▸ verb:  put or send forth ▸ verb:  make or work out a plan for; devise ("They contrived to murder their boss") ▸ Also see contriving ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to contrive ▸ Usage examples for contrive ▸ Words that often appear near contrive ▸ Rhymes of contrive ▸ Invented words related to contrive