• v.
    ⦿come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
    lexical concept
  • excogitate a way to measure the speed of light

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:contrive
  2. enl:devise
  3. enl:excogitate
  4. enl:forge
  5. enl:formulate
  6. enl:invent
wn:interlingual indexili:i29911

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • contrivedeviseexcogitateforgeformulateinvent
  • contrivedeviseforgeinvent