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Connive At

Definition: Connive At

Connive At

Verb

1. Give one's silent approval to.

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


Synonym: Connive At

Synonym: wink at (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Connive At

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Neglect

Overlook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at, connive at;gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller.

Permission

Verb: permit; give permission; Noun: give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede; accord, vouchsafe, favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut one's eyes to.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: Connive At

Expression using "connive at": connive at smth.. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Connive At

Language Translations for "connive at"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

přimhouřit oèi nad (connive). (various references)

   

French

  

être de connivence dans. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνεργώ (collaborate, cooperate), ανέχομαι (bear, bide, countenance, do with, put up with, stand for, stomach, support, tolerate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tettestárs (to connive at a crime), hallgatólagosan támogat vmit (to connive at sg), hallgatólagosan elnéz vmit (to connive at sg), fedez vmit (to connive at sg), cinkostárs (accessory, pander, stool pigeon, to connive at a crime), bűnrészes (abetter, abettor, accessory, accomplice, privy, to connive at a crime), bűnpalástolást követ el (to connive at a crime), bűnpártolást követ el (to connive at a crime). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

不問に付す (to connive at, to disregard, to ignore, to overlook). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふも"にふす (to connive at, to disregard, to ignore, to overlook). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onnivecay atay

   

Romanian

  

fi de conivenţã cu, închide ochii asupra (wink). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Connive At

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-o-t-v"

-1 letter: coinvent, conative, covenant, innovate, invocate, venation.

-2 letters: aconite, actinon, ancient, centavo, connate, connive, contain, convent, enation, venatic.

-3 letters: acetin, action, active, aeonic, ancone, anoint, atonic, avocet, canine, cannie, cannot, canton, cation, centai, conine, enatic, encina, eonian, incant, innate, intone, invent, nation, native, nocent, noetic, notice, novena, novice, octane, octave, tannic.

-4 letters: actin, ancon, anent.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-o-t-v"
 

+2 letters: connotative, contrivance, covenanting, noncreative, nonreactive.

 

+3 letters: antiviolence, conjunctivae, conservation, continuative, contravening, contrivances, convectional, conventional, conversation, nonactivated, nonaddictive, noncombative.

 

+4 letters: concentrative, connotatively, conservations, contaminative, contravention, conversations, convertiplane, noncreativity, noncultivated, noncumulative, revaccination.

 

+5 letters: anticonvulsive, conservational, conservatizing, contraventions, conventionally, conversational, convertiplanes, countervailing, nonachievement, nonacquisitive, noncommutative, noncooperative, noninteractive, nonradioactive, nonretroactive, nonspeculative, overcautioning, revaccinations, unconventional.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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