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# contrive

«contrive» in Mova's school dictionary: **To manage, by some clever means, to do something or bring…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (contrives, contrived, contriving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To manage, by some clever means, to do something or bring a result about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/#m1)

2) To make or build something cleverly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a character finds a clever way to get what they want: she contrived to escape the tower.

### examples

- She contrived to be first in the queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/#x1)
- Dad contrived a shelf from an old box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/#x2)
- I must contrive a way to get home before dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contrive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.