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contrive
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
contrives; contrived; contriving
contrives; contrived; contriving
Learner's definition of CONTRIVE
[+ object]
1
: to form or think of (a plan, method, etc.)拟定，想出（计划、方法等）
- The prisoners contrived a way to escape.囚犯们谋划了逃跑的路线。
2
: to form or make (something) in a skillful or clever way巧妙地策划；精巧地制造
- Native Americans contrived [=designed] weapons out of stone, wood, and bone.美洲土著居民把石头、木头和骨头巧妙地制作成武器。
3
: to make (something) happen in a clever way or with difficulty设法做到；设法促成 — often followed by to + verb常接动词不定式
- He contrived a meeting with the president.他设法促成了与总裁的会面。
- She contrived [=managed] to make it to the airport in time.她设法及时赶到了机场。
Synonyms
Example Sentences
The prisoners contrived a way to escape. He contrived a meeting with the president.
Recent Examples on the Web The economic plan is to pretend the bad news isn’t happening or contrive some distraction. 
The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 July 2022 This plot hole leaves room to contrive a situation in which Kya, whose father eventually leaves too, lives alone in her tiny family house that sits on acres of marshland. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2022 What evolves in that office belies the impersonal surroundings, but not in the soapy ways a writer of lesser gifts might contrive. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 May 2022 The House may even contrive a reason to impeach the President, if only for the fun of it. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 May 2022 These verbal ornaments give the actors something to work with, lines to inflect and emotions to contrive, as hectic distractions from the fact that their characters are purely puppets, pulled by the dictatorial strings of plot. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022 Unless the Russians contrive a clever reason to desist, the next stage will likely involve the broad deployment of heavy artillery and the beginning of missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 1 Mar. 2022 This time, though, there’s no theme to contrive to fit; just look at the headlines about events and trends of the current day. Washington Post, 10 June 2021 Craving heroes, the filmmakers contrive a celebrities-of-color fantasy that’s woke — and dull. Armond White, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021 See More
The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 July 2022 This plot hole leaves room to contrive a situation in which Kya, whose father eventually leaves too, lives alone in her tiny family house that sits on acres of marshland. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2022 What evolves in that office belies the impersonal surroundings, but not in the soapy ways a writer of lesser gifts might contrive. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 May 2022 The House may even contrive a reason to impeach the President, if only for the fun of it. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 May 2022 These verbal ornaments give the actors something to work with, lines to inflect and emotions to contrive, as hectic distractions from the fact that their characters are purely puppets, pulled by the dictatorial strings of plot. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022 Unless the Russians contrive a clever reason to desist, the next stage will likely involve the broad deployment of heavy artillery and the beginning of missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 1 Mar. 2022 This time, though, there’s no theme to contrive to fit; just look at the headlines about events and trends of the current day. Washington Post, 10 June 2021 Craving heroes, the filmmakers contrive a celebrities-of-color fantasy that’s woke — and dull. Armond White, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English controven, contreven, from Anglo-French controver, contrever, from Medieval Latin contropare to compare, from Latin com- + Vulgar Latin *tropare to compose, find — more at troubadour
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a
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