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All excogitate synonyms

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verb excogitate

  • conceive — If you cannot conceive of something, you cannot imagine it or believe it.
  • consider — If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
  • contemplate — If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
  • contrive — If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
  • deliberate — If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
  • derive — If you derive something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them.
  • develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
  • devise — If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
  • educe — to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
  • evolve — Develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
  • frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
  • invent — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
  • mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • ponder — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
  • ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
  • study — a room, in a house or other building, set apart for private study, reading, writing, or the like.
  • weigh — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
  • mull over — to study or ruminate; ponder.
  • perpend — a large stone passing through the entire thickness of a wall.
  • think out — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • think up — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • work out — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
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