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devise

devise - verb

To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving: concoct, contrive, dream up, fabricate, formulate, hatch, invent, make up, think up. Informal cook up. See make.
To form a strategy for: blueprint, cast, chart, conceive, contrive, design, formulate, frame, lay, plan, project, scheme, strategize, work out. Informal dope out. See planned.
To give (property) to another person after one's death: leave, will. Law bequeath. See give. law.