Dictionary Definition
connive
Verb
1 encourage or assent to illegally or
criminally
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
Translations
to cooperate with others secretly in order to
commit a crime
- Finnish: edesauttaa, myötävaikuttaa, olla osasyyllinen
- French: conspirer
to plot or scheme
- Finnish: vehkeillä, suunnitella, juonitella
- French: conspirer, tramer
- German: etwas aushecken
to pretend to be ignorant of something in order
to escape blame
- German: sich dumm stellen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accord,
agree, angle, associate, be in cahoots,
blink at, brew, cabal, coact, coadunate, cogitate, coincide, collaborate, collogue, collude, combine, complot, concoct, concur, condone, conjoin, conspire, contrive, cook up, cooperate, correspond, countermine, counterplot, devise, disregard, engineer, finagle, finesse, frame, frame up, happen together,
harmonize, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up,
ignore, intrigue, join, lay a plot, machinate, maneuver, operate, overlook, plot, regard with indulgence,
rig, scheme, synchronize, synergize, tolerate, unite, wangle, wink at