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Invent

To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

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Concoct 76% connected

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

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Hatch 76% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Concoct 76% connected

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

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Confabulate 76% connected

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

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Mythologize 76% connected

To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

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Spin 76% connected

To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing o…

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Devisal 74% connected

A devising.

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Devisal 74% connected

A devising.

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Synonym 8

Contrive 92% connected

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

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Devise 92% connected

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excogitate 92% connected

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fabricate 92% connected

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

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Forge 92% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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Formulate 92% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Manufacture 92% connected

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

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Vamp 92% connected

To advance; to travel.

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