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connivecon‧nive /kəˈnaɪv/ verb [intransitive] conniveOrigin: 1600-1700 French conniver, from Latin connivere ‘to close the eyes, connive’ VERB TABLEconnive |
Present | I, you, we, they | connive | | he, she, it | connives | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | connived | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have connived | | he, she, it | has connived | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had connived | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will connive | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have connived |
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Present | I | am conniving | | he, she, it | is conniving | | you, we, they | are conniving | Past | I, he, she, it | was conniving | | you, we, they | were conniving | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been conniving | | he, she, it | has been conniving | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been conniving | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be conniving | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been conniving |
- The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise.
- Would the brother connive at it?
1to not try to stop something wrong from happeningconnive at He would not be the first politician to connive at a shady business deal.2connive (with somebody) to do something to work secretly with someone to achieve something, especially something wrong SYN conspire: They connived with their mother to deceive me.—connivance noun [uncountable]: We could not have escaped without the connivance of the guards. |