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contrive |
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contrive Verb [-triving, -trived] 1. to make happen: he had already contrived the murder of King Alexander 2. to devise or construct ingeniously: he contrived a plausible reason to fly back to London, he contrived a hook from a bent nail [Old French controver]
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contrive Translationsvi to contrive to do sth → es fertigbringen, etw zu tun |
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And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point When you have done so we will contrive to arrange a rendezvous out of doors. The captain was made large amends for the unpleasant minutes which he passed in the conversation of his wife (and which were as few as he could contrive to make them), by the pleasant meditations he enjoyed when alone. |
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