Conspire

Definition: Conspire

Conspire

Verb

1. Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government".

2. Act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose; "The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "conspire" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Synonyms: Conspire

Concurrence

Verb: concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together, pull together, join forces, make common cause.

Cooperation

Conduce; combine, unite one;s efforts; keep together, draw together, pull together, club together, hand together, hold together, league together, band together, be banded together; pool; stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one;s heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples.

Crosswords: Conspire

French (conspires).

They talk like they're conspiring to conspire. (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan)

If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire. History does not matter to them (Nineteen Eighty-Four; writing credit: Jonathan Gems; George Orwell)

People do not conspire to frame an eight-year-old (Baby Blues; writing credit: Neal Boushell; Leonard Dick)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Conspire to kill (reference)

• Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See (reference)

• With Fate Conspire (Destiny Makers, 1) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

All of these factors conspire to make the illness underdiagnosed and, more importantly, undertreated. (references)

Children often conspire to figure out what is going on. Pieces of information are gathered, pooled, and analyzed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "conspire": conspire against ♦ conspire against the government ♦ conspire in ♦ conspire to. Additional references.

Albanian

konspiroj, komplotoj (cabal, compass, connive, contrive, plot, practise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعاون (club up, collaborate, collaboration, communion, concur, cooperate, cooperation, cope, get together, joining, participate, pull together, team up, unite, work for smth.), ‏تآمر (collude, connive, conspiracy, intrigue, plot, subversion, trinket), ‏أتمر, ‏رسم خطة سرية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

конспирирам, заговорнича (cabal, confederate, connive, connote, plot, scheme). (various references)

Chinese 

圖謀 , 密谋 (Conspired, Conspiring, Plotted, Plotting). (various references)

Czech

spiknout se, komplotovat. (various references)

Dutch

samenzweren, samenspannen. (various references)

Esperanto

konspiri. (various references)

Farsi 

هم پیمان شدن (League), توطله چیدن برای کاربد, درنقشه خیانت شرکت کردن . (various references)

Finnish

vehkeillä (intrigue, plot), olla salahankkeissa (plot). (various references)

French

conspirer. (various references)

German

sich verschwören (connive, give oneself over, plot). (various references)

Greek 

συνωμοτώ (complot, connive, plot). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקשור קשר (scheme), ל�"ת� כל (plan evil, plot, scheme), עוש�" ק� ו� י�" (conspirator). (various references)

Hungarian

összeesküvést szõ (knit up a plot, plot), összeesküszik (cabal, to conspire, to plot). (various references)

Indonesian

bersekongkol (abet, collude), berkomplot (connive). (various references)

Italian

cospirare, congiurare (plot), complottare (machinate, plot, scheme), tramare (brew, concoct, intrigue, machinate, plot, scheme). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

語らう (to conspire with, to pledge, to recite, to talk, to tell), 馴れ合う (to become intimate, to collude, to conspire, to establish a secret liaison, to get along well with, to make friends with), 示し合わす (to conspire, to prearrange), 示し合わせる (to arrange in advance, to conspire), 企む (to conspire, to frame up, to invent, to plan, to play a trick, to scheme), グループ分離キャラクタ (gloomy, groomer, groove, group interview, group separator, to conspire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たくらむ (to conspire, to frame up, to invent, to plan, to play a trick, to scheme), なれあう (to become intimate, to collude, to conspire, to establish a secret liaison, to get along well with, to make friends with), しめしあわす (to conspire, to prearrange), しめしあわせる (to arrange beforehand, to arrange in advance, to conspire, to make a sign to each other), かたらう (to conspire with, to pledge, to recite, to talk, to tell), グルになる (to conspire). (various references)

Korean 

결탁하십시�". (various references)

Manx

goaill coyrle follit (machinate, plot against), drogh-choardail, cur co-chialg er bun (cabal). (various references)

Papiamen

konspirá. (various references)

Pig Latin

onspirecay.(various references)

Portuguese

conspirar (cabal, collude, connive, intrigue, plot, put up). (various references)

Romanian

contribui la (administer to, advance, be ministerial to, conduce to, contribute to, go towards, subserve), conspira, conlucra (co operate, collaborate, pull together). (various references)

Russian 

устраивать заговор, сговариваться (arrange things, come to an agreement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kovati zaveru (plot), konspirisati. (various references)

Spanish

conspirar (connive, gang up, plot). (various references)

Swedish

sammansvärja sig, konspirera (connive, plot). (various references)

Turkish

suikâst hazırlamak, kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), komplo kurmak (cabal, complot, design, frame, frame up, lay a plot, scheme), gizlice anlaşmak (collude), fesat çıkarmak (foment, plot mischief), birlik olmak (align oneself with, aline oneself with, collaborate, gang up, unionize, unite), anlaşmak (agree, bargain, be in rapport with, close, come to an agreement, come to terms, compound, compromise, concert, cotton, covenant, fix on, fix up on, get along, get along with, getting on with, go along, hit it off with smb., keep in with, make a bargain, reach an agreement, settle, settle with, strike a bargain). (various references)

Ukrainian

учиняти змову, змовлятися (cabal, cahoot, concert), діяти спільно (cahoot, concur). (various references)

Welsh

cynllwyn (ambush, beset, plot), bradfwriadu (plot). (various references)

coeam, coeuntes, coibis, coierit, coierunt, coire, coirent, coitu, coitum, coitus, coniuro, conjurare, conjuro, consenserat, consenserint, consenserunt, consensisse, consensit, consensu, consensurum, consensus, consenti, consentias, consentiat, consentiebam, consentiebas, consentiens, consentientes, consentio, consentit, consentitis, consentiunt, conspirare, iora, iura, iurabis, iurabisque, iurabit, iurabitis, iurandi, iurandum, iurans, iurant, iurante, iurantes, iurantis, iurantium, iurare, iuraret, iurassent, iurasset, iurasti, iurat, iurate, iurationi, iuratis, iuraverant, iuraveras, iuraverat, iuraveris, iuraverit, iuraveritis, iuraverunt, iuraveruntque, iuravi, iuravimus, iuravit, iuravitque, iurent, iuret, iuretis, iuro. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "conspire": conspired, conspires. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conspire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conseire, consier, consirer, conspir, Cospoir, Cynsige, monspar, sonspire. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: incorpse.

-1 letter: coiners, copiers, crepons, crispen, cronies, orceins, orpines, pincers, porcine, princes, recoins.

-2 letters: censor, coiner, conies, copens, copers, copier, copies, corpse, cosier, cosine, crepon, cripes, crones, icones, irones, nosier, opines, orcein, orcins, orpine, orpins, oscine, person, pincer, poiser, ponces, ponies, precis, prices, prince, prions, prison, recoin, recons, repins, ripens, senior, sniper, spicer, spinor.

+1 letter: caponiers, conspired, conspires, coprinces, inceptors, incorpsed, incorpses, inspector, pecorinos, precision, princoxes, procaines, proscenia, provinces, replicons.

+2 letters: censorship, coprisoner, hypersonic, inspectors, intercrops, introspect, isentropic, necropolis, necropsied, necropsies, neotropics, nephrotics, percussion, pernicious, porcelains, porcupines, precession, precisions, preclusion, prescoring, princedoms, processing, procession, proscenium, prosecting, receptions, saprogenic, scorpaenid, sporogenic, supersonic, supertonic.

+3 letters: caparisoned, censorships, ceratopsian, chairperson, complainers, compressing, compression, conscripted, copresident, coprisoners, decryptions, description, encryptions, excerptions, importances, imprecision, introspects, ionospheric, mesonephric, microphones, necropoleis, necropsying, nondescript, nonreceipts, perceptions, percussions, perfections, persecution, pratincoles, precautions, precessions, preclusions, predictions, prefocusing, prelections, probenecids, proceedings, processions, proficients, projections, prominences, prosceniums, prosecuting, prosecution, prospecting, protections, providences, pyromancies, recomposing, retinoscopy, scorpaenids, sniperscope, supersonics, supertonics, voiceprints.