devise

About 3.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).

   to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing

2. verb To leave (property) in a will.
3. verb To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
4. verb To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
5. verb To imagine; to guess.
6. noun The act of leaving real property in a will.
7. noun Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
8. noun The real property left in such a will.

Similar words

invent contrive prepare organize excogitate formulate get up forge introduce enactment

Often followed by

a and some an the to ways means of

Word family

devisable devised devisen deviser devisers devises devising