conspire
Meaning of conspire
verb
- make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
they conspired against him
they deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue
late Middle English: from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare ‘agree, plot’, from con- ‘together with’ + spirare ‘breathe’.
Information about conspire
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of conspire is: conspires.
- Languages in which conspire is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of conspire
con-spire
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- conspire is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
conspire synonyms
Meaning cabal:
cabal, complot, conjure, machinate
Meaning collude:
Meaning secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action):
Meaning make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong:
Meaning decide on and make arrangements for in advance:
Meaning make secret plans to do something illicit or detrimental to someone:
Meaning conspire to do something immoral, illegal, or harmful:
Meaning cooperate traitorously with an enemy:
Meaning habitually associate with (someone), typically with the disapproval of others:
Meaning encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular to commit a crime:
Translation of conspire
- French: manigancer, comploter, conjurer, machiner
- German: anzetteln
- Spanish: conspirar, tramar
- Italian: macchinare, complottare, cospirare, congiurare
Anagrams of conspire
Words that rhyme with conspire
Pire, Empire, archvampire, empire, interempire, proempire, sampire, umpire, vampire, Highspire, acrospire, aspire, coinspire, cotranspire, hydrospire, inspire, interspire, leptospire, perspire, preconspire, preinspire, prerespire, reaspire, reinspire, respire, sigmaspire, spire, suspire, transpire, upspire, coexpire, expire
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