Attend and Contrive

Attend

Attend verb - To go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship.

Contrive and attend are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Contrive" instead a verb "Attend".

Nearby Words: attending, attendance

Contrive

Contrive verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.

Attend and contrive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Attend" instead a verb "Contrive".

Nearby Words: contrivance, contriving, contriver

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

meetings attend meetings contrive meetings
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