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v. cause to happen, occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor"; "the new President must bring about a change in the health care system"

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manufacture

v. create or produce in a mechanical way; "This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"

effect, effectuate, set up

v. produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave"

dispatch, discharge, complete

v. complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties"

achieve, accomplish, attain, reach

v. to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"

gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise

v. have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"

plan, project, contrive, design

v. make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"

invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge

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

imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage

v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"

envision, foresee

v. picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President"

manufacture

v. produce naturally; "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"

fashion, forge

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge

v. make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"

hatch

v. draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper; "hatch the sheet"

cover

v. play a higher card than the one previously played; "Smith covered again"

start, start up, embark on, commence

v. get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"

engender, breed, spawn

v. call forth

stage, present, represent

v. perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'"

dissemble, pretend, act

v. behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"

perform

v. give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

perform, execute, do

v. carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"

propagate

v. multiply sexually or asexually

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destroy, destruct

v. do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

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