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# contrive

verb (contrives, contrived, contriving)

«contrive» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To manage, by some clever means, to do something or bring a result about. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/#m1)
2. To make or build something cleverly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/#m2)

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

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «contrive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«contrive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/contrive.html) on Mova free.