| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To form a strategy for: blueprint, cast, chart, conceive, design, devise, formulate, frame, lay1, plan, project, scheme, strategize, work out. Informal : dope out. Idioms: lay plans. See PLANNED. 2. To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving: concoct, devise, dream up, fabricate, formulate, hatch, invent, make up, think up. Informal : cook up. Idioms: come up with. See MAKE.
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