Meaning & use

devise

verb·Academic

To plan or invent something carefully, using thought and creativity.

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Engineers devised a new method to purify water without electricity.

The children devised a secret code to pass notes in class.

A note on using this word

Implies careful thought and originality, more deliberate than simply "making" or "doing" something.

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