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recontrive

recontrive verb: to contrive again.

Verb

recontrive (third-person singular simple present recontrives, present participle recontriving, simple past and past participle recontrived)

  1. To contrive again.

Forms of recontrive

third-person singular presentrecontrives
present participlerecontriving
past participlerecontrived
pastrecontrived

Origin of recontrive

From re- + contrive.

Questions about recontrive

What does recontrive mean?
Recontrive means to contrive again.
What part of speech is recontrive?
Recontrive is a verb.
What is the past tense of recontrive?
The past tense of recontrive is recontrived.

Words near recontrive in the dictionary

  1. recontributed
  2. recontributes
  3. recontributing
  4. recontribution
  5. recontributions
  6. recontrive
  7. recontrived
  8. recontrives
  9. recontriving
  10. recontrol
  11. recontrolled

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