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verb
- 1. make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act: "they conspired against him" Similar
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to plan secretly with other people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone's wishes: [ + to infinitive ] He felt that his colleagues were conspiring together to remove him from his job. conspire with He was convicted of conspiring with the bombers.
1. a. : to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreement. accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. conspired to monopolize and restrict trade. b. : scheme. 2. : to act in harmony toward a common end.
conspire in British English. (kənˈspaɪə ) verb (when intr, sometimes foll by against) 1. to plan or agree on (a crime or harmful act) together in secret. 2. (intransitive) to act together towards some end as if by design. the elements conspired to spoil our picnic. Collins English Dictionary.
Conspire definition: to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal. See examples of CONSPIRE used in a sentence.
When you conspire, you collaborate with others to do harm, or maybe just keep something from happening, like a group that conspires to get tuna melts booted from the lunch menu by urging everyone to order other things.
1. to plan or agree on (a crime or harmful act) together in secret. 2. (intr) to act together towards some end as if by design: the elements conspired to spoil our picnic. [C14: from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspīrāre to plot together, literally: to breathe together, from spīrāre to breathe] conˈspirer n.
to plan secretly with other people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone's wishes: [ + to infinitive ] He felt that his colleagues were conspiring together to remove him from his job. conspire with He was convicted of conspiring with the bombers.
