Make or work out a plan for; devise:
— They contrived to murder their boss.

synonyms: design, plan, project.

Roget 626: plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent etc. (imagine) 515; set one's wits to work etc. 515; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine etc. 611; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare etc. 673; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.    cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange etc. 60; digest, mature.    plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue etc. (cunning) 702.    ... show more

Roget 702: be cunning etc. adj.; have cut one's eyeteeth; contrive etc. (plan) 626; live by one's wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander, finesse, double, temporize, stoop to conquer, reculer pour mieux sauter [Fr.], circumvent, steal a march upon; overreach etc. 545; throw off one's guard; surprise etc. 508; snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the thin end of the wedge; play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.]; flatter, make things pleasant; have an ax to grind.    dodge, sidestep, bob and weave.    ... show more

Dutch: ontwerpen, bedenken, concipiëren, plannen, uitdenken, uitstippelen, verzinnen, vinden

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.

synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent.

Roget 161: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish etc. (complete) 729.    flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean^†, yean^†, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world.    make productive etc. 168; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate; procreate, progenerate^†, propagate; engender; bring into being, call into being, bring into existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring up.    induce, superinduce; suscitate^†; cause etc. 153; acquire etc. 775.    ... show more

Dutch: uitdenken

Put or send forth.

synonyms: cast, project, throw.