The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conspire \Con*spire"\ (k[o^]n*sp[imac]r"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conspired (k[o^]n*sp[imac]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conspiring.] [F. conspirer, L. conspirare to blow together, harmonize, agree, plot; con- + spirare to breathe, blow. See Spirit.]
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To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.
They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.
--Gen. xxxvii. 18.You have conspired against our royal person, Joined with an enemy proclaimed.
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To concur to one end; to agree.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage Conspire to censure and expose our age.
--Roscommon.Syn: To unite; concur; complot; confederate; league.
Wiktionary
n. conspiracy vb. (present participle of conspire English)
Usage examples of "conspiring".
All spring Mom was busy at the Women for Peace center and I was busy conspiring with surrealists and Yippies.
Guppy only expresses the finer feelings of his soul through the tone of injury in which he recommences, "Tony, when I say there is a point on which we must come to an understanding pretty soon, I say so quite apart from any kind of conspiring, however innocent.
Now I won't allude to conspiring to extort money or anything of that sort, because we are men and women of the world here, and our object is to make things pleasant.
The villagers act like we're the enemy instead of on their side, and the landscape is so difficult to search properly it feels like even that's conspiring against us.
It was as if events were conspiring to force him to think about Alison Carter again.
She's admitted to conspiring with her mother to murder her stepfather, but there's still something locked away inside her that she thinks is even worse.
When he reproached the King of England for conspiring with Charles of Navarre against the King of France, Edward lied as easily as rulers of later times.
They were charged with conspiring to control the King, exclude his proper councillors, murder the Duke of Gloucester, imÂpoverish the crown by grants to themselves and their relatives, overÂride Parliament, and return Calais to the French King in exchange for aid against their domestic opponents.
Come on, where you and I lived everybody was conspiring to bomb the Pentagon, or anyway jam up their plumbing.