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[kənˈtrʌɪv], (Verb)
Definitions:
- create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice
(e.g: his opponents contrived a cabinet crisis)
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Origin
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Middle English: from Old French contreuve-, stressed stem of controver ‘imagine, invent’, from medieval Latin contropare ‘compare’
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