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conspire

[kuhn-spahy^uhr]

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verb (used without object)

to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal: They conspired to kill the king.

to act or work together toward the same result or goal.

verb (used with object)

to plot (something wrong, evil, or illegal).

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Latin conspīrāre to act in harmony, conspire, equivalent to con- con- + spīrāre to breathe; see spirant, spirit

Related forms

con·spir·er, noun

con·spir·ing·ly, adverb

non·con·spir·ing, adjective

pre·con·spire, verb, -spired, -spir·ing.

un·con·spired, adjective

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un·con·spir·ing, adjective

un·con·spir·ing·ly, adverb

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Can be confused: connive, conspire.

Synonyms
1. complot, intrigue. See plot. 2. combine, concur, cooperate.

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Example Sentences

Politics and problems in the industry conspire to make it tough to make money in this business.

The world seems to conspire against you when you're an adjunct.

Weather systems are complex and chaotic and small events can conspire to cause dramatic, sudden and unforeseeable shifts.

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Politics and problems in the industry conspire to make it tough to make money in this business.

The world seems to conspire against you when you're an adjunct.

Weather systems are complex and chaotic and small events can conspire to cause dramatic, sudden and unforeseeable shifts.

The headline and the article thus conspire to portray a brave little dog that tried to rescue human children.

Nature could conspire to give the carp a higher survival rate or simply turn off the daughterless gene.

Clearly, agencies or elements therein can and do conspire against the people.

Across the south other factors conspire against good schooling.

But once begun, many factors conspire to make the process expensive and frustrating.

Once a bubble is inflating many factors conspire to discourage a regulator from pricking it.

They will collude and conspire to conceal the truth.

Yet policies at every level conspire to wreak its destruction.

Other factors too conspire against the development of a coherent plan of action.

Our chief national virtue may be that our tyrants are too plentiful to conquer and too proud to conspire.

Those otherwise decent individuals who conspire together to tie down a human being and kill him in cold blood.

Journalistic freedoms should not include the freedom to conspire to overthrow governments.

Washington, they conspire to make up an epic that is both cosmic and local.

New research explains how three proteins conspire to determine an embryo's.

Where local strongmen and a corrupt government plunder natural resources and conspire to keep the peasantry suppressed.

But nerves, the observer effect, and pedagogic blunders can conspire to conjure up the wrong impression of your teaching skills.

And he warned that successful business people were always trying to conspire with politicians to preserve the status quo.

Google executives worried that the telecoms would conspire to keep bidding below that baseline price.

The drive against polio threatens to become a display of all that can conspire against efforts to eliminate a disease.

And here's a librarian willing to collaborate and conspire with them.

Illegal deforestation happens when ranchers and loggers conspire to clear swathes of land.

Events conspire to put the three people together on a manhunt for the anthropologist.

The two qualities conspire to give the pictures a delicious tinge of romantic regret.

Engel said, fate and time frequently conspire to complicate matters.

Within days of the revelation, the couple began to conspire to kill the child, the police said.

The key to his success, he frequently said, was to conspire with children against adults.

Hathaway conspire to show her at her appalling worst.

The major carriers already conspire to raise and keep prices high.

It is a romance that the others conspire to destroy.

Mazzuto was issuing stocks illegally, prosecutors said, although some of the recipients of the shares did conspire with him.

In my experience this problem is usually caused by the sinister forces that conspire to take away fall weekends.

There are times when fate and fame conspire to put even living legends to the test.

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World English Dictionary

conspire (kənˈspaɪə)

—vb (when intr, sometimes foll by against)
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]

con'spirer

—n

con'spiringly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

conspire

c.1300, from O.Fr. conspirer, from L. conspirare "to agree, unite, plot," lit. "to breathe together," from com- "together" + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit).

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