<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.</li><li>to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage: He contrived to gain their votes.</li><li>to plot (evil, treachery, etc.).</li><li>to form designs; plan.</li><li>to plot.</li></ul>