Synonyms of the word

devise

• v. (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
• v. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
• n. The act of leaving real property in a will.
• n. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
• n. The real property left in such a will.
• n. Design, devising.

bequeath

• v. (law) To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
• v. To hand down; to transmit.
• v. To give; to offer; to commit.

contrive

• v. To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
• v. To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
• v. To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

excogitate

• v. To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
• v. To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

forge

• n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
• v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• v. To form or create with concerted effort.
• v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
• v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
• v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

formulate

• v. (transitive) To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement…

gift

• n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
• n. A talent or natural ability.
• n. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
• n. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
• v. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
• v. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.

heritage

• n. An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
• n. A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families…
• n. A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
• n. (attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.

inheritance

• n. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
• n. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
• n. (biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
• n. (programming, object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts…

initiate

• adj. (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
• adj. (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
• n. A new member of an organization.
• n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
• v. (transitive) To begin; to start.
• v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• v. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

invent

• v. To design a new process or mechanism.
• v. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
• v. (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

leave

• v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
• v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
• v. (heading) To transfer something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
• n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
• n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
• n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
• n. (dated or law) Permission.
• n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
• v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

machinate

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire.

organise

• v. British spelling standard spelling of organize.

organize

• v. (transitive) To arrange in working order.
• v. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
• v. (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure…
• v. (transitive, music) To sing in parts.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively;…

pioneer

• n. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
• n. A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
• n. (obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as…
• n. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
• n. (communism) A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming…
• v. To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

prepare

• v. (transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
• v. (transitive) To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
• v. (intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
• v. (transitive) To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
• n. (obsolete) preparation.

testament

• n. (law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal…
• n. One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians…
• n. A tangible proof or tribute.
• n. A credo, expression of conviction.

will

• v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
• v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
• v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
• v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations…
• v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in…
• v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
• n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
• n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
• n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
• n. A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death;…
• n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
• n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.).
• v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
• v. (transitive) To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
• v. (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).