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verb
To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving:
concoct, contrive, dream up, fabricate, formulate, hatch, invent, make up, think up. (Informal) cook up. Idiom: come up with. See makeTo form a strategy for:
blueprint, cast, chart, conceive, contrive, design, formulate, frame, lay1, plan, project, scheme, strategize, work out. (Informal) dope out. Idiom: lay plans. See planned- (Law)
To give (property) to another person after one's death:
leave1, will. (Law) bequeath. See give, law
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