Connive

Definition: Connive

Connive

Verb

1. Encourage or assent to illegally; in criminal behavior.

2. Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner.

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

Date "connive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Connive

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.

Crosswords: Connive

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Nigeria

Some returnees have alleged that immigration officials actively connive with syndicates; however, there were no arrests of immigration officials for trafficking offenses during the year. (references)

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Expressions using "connive": connive at ♦ connive at smth. ♦ connive to do smth.. Additional references.

Albanian

komplotoj (cabal, compass, conspire, contrive, plot, practise), bashkëpunoj (co operate, collaborate), bëhem bashkëfajtor. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تواطأ, ‏تغاضى (condone, disregard, excuse, forget, look over, overlook, part with, pass, pass over, slur, wink), ‏تستر على, ‏تعاون سريا, ‏تآمر (collude, conspiracy, conspire, intrigue, plot, subversion, trinket). (various references)

Bulgarian 

затварям си очите (go blind oneself, run away, stretch a point, turn a blind eye to, turn against), заговорнича (cabal, confederate, connote, conspire, plot, scheme). (various references)

Czech

přimhouřit oèi nad (connive at). (various references)

Farsi 

مسامحه کردن , چشم پوشی کردن (Overlook), تجاهل کردن (Blink, Evade, Ignore), سروسرداشتن . (various references)

French

grenouiller, fermer les yeux, être complice de. (various references)

German

dulden (abide, acquiesce, bear, Brook, condone, countenance, endure, permit, put up with, suffer, to acquiesce, to connive, to tolerate, tolerate). (various references)

Greek 

συνωμοτώ (complot, conspire, plot), συνεργάζομαι στο κακό, εθελοτυφλώ (turn б blind eye to, turn α blind eye to). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עלים עין (overlook, turn a blind eye). (various references)

Hungarian

szemet huny (to connive at sg, turn a blind eye), összejátszik valakivel. (various references)

Indonesian

membiarkan (forgo, let), berkomplot (conspire). (various references)

Italian

essere connivente. (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)

Manx

lhiggey lesh (abandon, abandonment, comply, concede, concession, connivance, forbear, humour, indulge, indulgence, loosen, loosening, part with, remission, spare, yield). (various references)

Pig Latin

onnivecay

Portuguese

conspirar (cabal, collude, conspire, intrigue, plot, put up), ser conivente. (various references)

Romanian

încuviinţã. (various references)

Russian 

потворствовать (indulge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ne gledati na greške, biti u dosluhu. (various references)

Spanish

conspirar (conspire, gang up, plot), hacer la vista gorda (blink an eye). (various references)

Swedish

se genom fingrarna. (various references)

Turkish

suç ortağı olmak, hoşgörmek (excuse, indulge, look with favour on, overlook, permit of, tolerate), hoş görmek, göz yummak (blink, blink at, condone, excuse, face up to, have, leave unnoticed, let smth. pass unchallenged, overlook, pass by, permit of, suffer, tolerate, wink, wink at), görmemezlikten gelmek (blink, blink at, close one's eyes to, cut, cut smb. dead, dissemble, give smb. the go-by, look through, overlook, overpass, pass off, pretend not to see, turn a blind eye, wink at). (various references)

Ukrainian

потурати (appease, gratify, humor, humour, pander). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lờ đi; bao che ngầm, đ�"ng loã nhắm mắt l� m ngơ. (various references)

coierit, coierunt, coniventes, conivere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "connive": connived, connivent, conniver, connivers, connives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Connive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conbive, conciev, concive, conie, conif, Conival, conive, conize, conni, connie, conniv, convien, Kinninvie, Korniev. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: conine, novice.

-2 letters: conin, coven, covin, envoi, nonce, ovine, venin, voice.

-3 letters: cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, conn, cove, icon, neon, nevi, nice, nine, none, once, oven, vein, vice, vine, vino.

-4 letters: con, eon, ice, inn, ion, one, vie, voe.

-5 letters: en, in, ne, no, oe, on.

+1 letter: coinvent, connived, conniver, connives, convince.

+2 letters: coinvents, connivent, connivers, convening, conveying, convinced, convincer, convinces, novocaine.

+3 letters: coinvented, coinventor, conceiving, connective, connivance, conserving, convecting, convection, convenient, conventing, convention, converging, conversing, conversion, converting, convincers, insolvency, novocaines, reconvince, uncovering.

+4 letters: coinventing, coinventors, conjunctive, connectives, connivances, connotative, contrivance, convections, convenience, conveniency, conventicle, conventions, conversions, covenanting, noncoercive, noncreative, nonelective, nonevidence, nonreactive, nonviolence, provenience, reconvening, reconveying, reconvinced, reconvinces, uncontrived, unconvinced, venesection.