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Definition: Connive At |
Connive AtVerb1. Give one's silent approval to. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Connive AtSynonym: wink at (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Expression using "connive at": connive at smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 fi de conivenţã cu, închide ochii asupra (wink). (various references) | ||||||||||
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. | |
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