Definition of conspire in English:

conspire

verb kənˈspʌɪəkənˈspaɪ(ə)r

[no object]

1Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
阴谋，密谋；共谋
they conspired against him
他们密谋反对他。
with infinitive they deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue
他们否认曾密谋诈骗国内税收。
Example sentencesExamples
- Under that statute, anyone who conspires to commit torture - by, say, authorising it - is liable to a penalty of life imprisonment.
- How can one trust a system in which the government and the opposition have conspired to let an aging generation run the show?
- They didn't lose their case because everyone conspired against them.
- Any person who aids, abets, counsels or conspires to commit such acts is a criminal.
- He is forced to plead for the return of a man he conspired against, denigrated and expelled.
- He also dismissed as unfounded the father's claim that his family had conspired against him and made up a story about the rape.
- In his eyes, he did not fail; he was conspired against and was therefore entitled to compensate for his disadvantage by bending the rules.
- But racing, in particular, has often suffered from people who deliberately conspire to fix results, and those cheats now know that their days are numbered.
- The former classroom assistant denies conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two counts of assisting an offender.
- This angers a cabal of evil businessmen, who somehow are profiting from the bad times, so they conspire to bring the new agency down.
- He is being prosecuted by the US government for conspiring to commit murder and aiding terrorist organizations.
- Currently, conspiracy to defraud is a common law offence that requires that two or more individuals conspire to commit a fraud against another.
- He was charged with conspiring to commit wilful murder.
- This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him.
- Those who are members of the Church and yet conspire against her commit a serious and brutal crime.
- If the parent or guardian of the person conspires to commit such acts, they will be imprisoned for from four years to twenty years.
- Before he died, he believed that his doctors had conspired against him.
- How are you really able to argue that the ‘elite’ have conspired to achieve this result.
- The Brits have just charged eight men with conspiring to commit heinous terrorist acts.
- Are the traffic planners of this city conspiring to bring the whole place to a standstill?
Synonyms
plot, hatch a plot, form a conspiracy, scheme, plan, lay plans, intrigue, collude, connive, collaborate, consort, machinate, manoeuvre, be/work hand in glove
abet, be an accessory
informal be in cahoots
rare cabal
1. 1.1with infinitive (of events or circumstances) seem to be working together to bring about a particular negative result.
  （事件，情况）合作，协同；凑合起来；共同促成
  everything conspires to exacerbate the situation
  所有的事都凑在一起使情况更糟。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sarah is not merely a woman who feels like a bad mother, she is a bad mother, or least she is until circumstances conspire to jolt her into reality.
  I had planned to just play for an hour or two, but events soon conspired to keep me in Connecticut until nightfall.
  People on the doorstep were positive about us but the demographics conspired against us.
  The circumstances conspire to make a sexual relation or a future together impossible.
  But, once Napoleon has returned home, he discovers that fate has conspired against him.
  And just as it never rains but pours, so it could be said the conditions also conspired against the Minstermen.
  Each character is linked by more than just work, as hold-ups, corpses, missing children, affairs and other events conspire to alter their lives.
  As the scenery switches from Argentina to Chile to Colombia, events conspire to change our hero, as we know they will.
  The list of events, local and national, that have conspired against the tourist industry is shocking.
  Fate and circumstances often conspire to change the direction of our lives for better or worse.
  Occasionally events conspire to imbue these great-leader impersonators with great symbolic power.
  He fell upon the road as if, when he left it behind, he would be leaving behind every small part of his life that had conspired against him.
  Thursday's severe heat and humidity conspired against this.
  Changing tastes in grape variety have also conspired against the humble canned vino.
  Circumstances conspired to make him national chairman from 1999 around the same time as he won a seat on Cork City Council.
  However, the Great War seems to have conspired against his plans and that was not to be.
  The evolution of the NFL has conspired against quarterbacks selected in the first round.
  We have tried the kite numerous times more, but the fish have either ignored the bait or the wind has conspired against us to either stall the kite or send it spinning out of control.
  Many chances were created but poor finishing and a forthright penalty appeal that was turned down conspired against them.
  I can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon and I'm sure that events are conspiring to ensure that I'll be well and truly wound up by the end of the week.
  Synonyms
  act together, work together, combine, join, unite, ally, join forces, cooperate
  informal gang up
  rare coact

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare 'agree, plot', from con- 'together with' + spirare 'breathe'.

spirit from Middle English:
Our word spirit is based on Latin spiritus ‘breath or spirit’, from spirare ‘to breathe’—the ancient Romans believed that the human soul had been ‘breathed’ into the body—the image is the same as ‘the breath of life’. The sense ‘strong distilled alcoholic drink’ comes from the use in alchemy of spirit to mean ‘a liquid essence extracted from some substance’. People sometimes say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when they have good intentions but yield to temptation and fail to live up to them. The source is the New Testament, where Jesus uses the phrase after finding his disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane despite telling them that they should stay awake. Spirare forms the basis of numerous English words including aspire (mid 16th century) from adspirare ‘to breath upon, seek to reach’; conspire (Late Middle English) from conspirare ‘to breath together, agree’; expire (late 16th century) ‘to breath out’; inspire (Late Middle English) ‘breath into’ from the idea that a divine or outside power has inspired you; and perspire (mid 17th century) ‘to breath through’; and transpire (Late Middle English) ‘breath across. In English spirit was shortened to sprite (Middle English) which in turn developed sprightly (late 16th century).

Rhymes

acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah

Definition of conspire in US English:

conspire

verbkənˈspaɪ(ə)rkənˈspī(ə)r

[no object]

1Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
阴谋，密谋；共谋
they conspired against him
他们密谋反对他。
they deny conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service
他们否认曾密谋诈骗国内税收。
Example sentencesExamples
- The former classroom assistant denies conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two counts of assisting an offender.
- This angers a cabal of evil businessmen, who somehow are profiting from the bad times, so they conspire to bring the new agency down.
- This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him.
- He also dismissed as unfounded the father's claim that his family had conspired against him and made up a story about the rape.
- Before he died, he believed that his doctors had conspired against him.
- He is forced to plead for the return of a man he conspired against, denigrated and expelled.
- If the parent or guardian of the person conspires to commit such acts, they will be imprisoned for from four years to twenty years.
- But racing, in particular, has often suffered from people who deliberately conspire to fix results, and those cheats now know that their days are numbered.
- He was charged with conspiring to commit wilful murder.
- How are you really able to argue that the ‘elite’ have conspired to achieve this result.
- Under that statute, anyone who conspires to commit torture - by, say, authorising it - is liable to a penalty of life imprisonment.
- In his eyes, he did not fail; he was conspired against and was therefore entitled to compensate for his disadvantage by bending the rules.
- How can one trust a system in which the government and the opposition have conspired to let an aging generation run the show?
- He is being prosecuted by the US government for conspiring to commit murder and aiding terrorist organizations.
- Those who are members of the Church and yet conspire against her commit a serious and brutal crime.
- They didn't lose their case because everyone conspired against them.
- Are the traffic planners of this city conspiring to bring the whole place to a standstill?
- Any person who aids, abets, counsels or conspires to commit such acts is a criminal.
- The Brits have just charged eight men with conspiring to commit heinous terrorist acts.
- Currently, conspiracy to defraud is a common law offence that requires that two or more individuals conspire to commit a fraud against another.
Synonyms
plot, hatch a plot, form a conspiracy, scheme, plan, lay plans, intrigue, collude, connive, collaborate, consort, machinate, manoeuvre, be hand in glove, work hand in glove
1. 1.1 (of events or circumstances) seem to be working together to bring about a particular result, typically to someone's detriment.
  （事件，情况）合作，协同；凑合起来；共同促成
  everything conspires to exacerbate the situation
  所有的事都凑在一起使情况更糟。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The circumstances conspire to make a sexual relation or a future together impossible.
  The evolution of the NFL has conspired against quarterbacks selected in the first round.
  As the scenery switches from Argentina to Chile to Colombia, events conspire to change our hero, as we know they will.
  Many chances were created but poor finishing and a forthright penalty appeal that was turned down conspired against them.
  The list of events, local and national, that have conspired against the tourist industry is shocking.
  Changing tastes in grape variety have also conspired against the humble canned vino.
  We have tried the kite numerous times more, but the fish have either ignored the bait or the wind has conspired against us to either stall the kite or send it spinning out of control.
  But, once Napoleon has returned home, he discovers that fate has conspired against him.
  People on the doorstep were positive about us but the demographics conspired against us.
  Occasionally events conspire to imbue these great-leader impersonators with great symbolic power.
  However, the Great War seems to have conspired against his plans and that was not to be.
  Sarah is not merely a woman who feels like a bad mother, she is a bad mother, or least she is until circumstances conspire to jolt her into reality.
  I had planned to just play for an hour or two, but events soon conspired to keep me in Connecticut until nightfall.
  Fate and circumstances often conspire to change the direction of our lives for better or worse.
  I can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon and I'm sure that events are conspiring to ensure that I'll be well and truly wound up by the end of the week.
  Thursday's severe heat and humidity conspired against this.
  Each character is linked by more than just work, as hold-ups, corpses, missing children, affairs and other events conspire to alter their lives.
  He fell upon the road as if, when he left it behind, he would be leaving behind every small part of his life that had conspired against him.
  And just as it never rains but pours, so it could be said the conditions also conspired against the Minstermen.
  Circumstances conspired to make him national chairman from 1999 around the same time as he won a seat on Cork City Council.
  Synonyms
  act together, work together, combine, join, unite, ally, join forces, cooperate

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare ‘agree, plot’, from con- ‘together with’ + spirare ‘breathe’.

单词	conspire
释义	Definition of conspire in English: conspire verb kənˈspʌɪəkənˈspaɪ(ə)r [no object] 1Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act. 阴谋，密谋；共谋 they conspired against him 他们密谋反对他。 with infinitive they deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue 他们否认曾密谋诈骗国内税收。 Example sentencesExamples Under that statute, anyone who conspires to commit torture - by, say, authorising it - is liable to a penalty of life imprisonment. How can one trust a system in which the government and the opposition have conspired to let an aging generation run the show? They didn't lose their case because everyone conspired against them. Any person who aids, abets, counsels or conspires to commit such acts is a criminal. He is forced to plead for the return of a man he conspired against, denigrated and expelled. He also dismissed as unfounded the father's claim that his family had conspired against him and made up a story about the rape. In his eyes, he did not fail; he was conspired against and was therefore entitled to compensate for his disadvantage by bending the rules. But racing, in particular, has often suffered from people who deliberately conspire to fix results, and those cheats now know that their days are numbered. The former classroom assistant denies conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two counts of assisting an offender. This angers a cabal of evil businessmen, who somehow are profiting from the bad times, so they conspire to bring the new agency down. He is being prosecuted by the US government for conspiring to commit murder and aiding terrorist organizations. Currently, conspiracy to defraud is a common law offence that requires that two or more individuals conspire to commit a fraud against another. He was charged with conspiring to commit wilful murder. This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him. Those who are members of the Church and yet conspire against her commit a serious and brutal crime. If the parent or guardian of the person conspires to commit such acts, they will be imprisoned for from four years to twenty years. Before he died, he believed that his doctors had conspired against him. How are you really able to argue that the ‘elite’ have conspired to achieve this result. The Brits have just charged eight men with conspiring to commit heinous terrorist acts. Are the traffic planners of this city conspiring to bring the whole place to a standstill? Synonyms plot, hatch a plot, form a conspiracy, scheme, plan, lay plans, intrigue, collude, connive, collaborate, consort, machinate, manoeuvre, be/work hand in glove abet, be an accessory informal be in cahoots rare cabal 1.1with infinitive (of events or circumstances) seem to be working together to bring about a particular negative result. （事件，情况）合作，协同；凑合起来；共同促成 everything conspires to exacerbate the situation 所有的事都凑在一起使情况更糟。 Example sentencesExamples Sarah is not merely a woman who feels like a bad mother, she is a bad mother, or least she is until circumstances conspire to jolt her into reality. I had planned to just play for an hour or two, but events soon conspired to keep me in Connecticut until nightfall. People on the doorstep were positive about us but the demographics conspired against us. The circumstances conspire to make a sexual relation or a future together impossible. But, once Napoleon has returned home, he discovers that fate has conspired against him. And just as it never rains but pours, so it could be said the conditions also conspired against the Minstermen. Each character is linked by more than just work, as hold-ups, corpses, missing children, affairs and other events conspire to alter their lives. As the scenery switches from Argentina to Chile to Colombia, events conspire to change our hero, as we know they will. The list of events, local and national, that have conspired against the tourist industry is shocking. Fate and circumstances often conspire to change the direction of our lives for better or worse. Occasionally events conspire to imbue these great-leader impersonators with great symbolic power. He fell upon the road as if, when he left it behind, he would be leaving behind every small part of his life that had conspired against him. Thursday's severe heat and humidity conspired against this. Changing tastes in grape variety have also conspired against the humble canned vino. Circumstances conspired to make him national chairman from 1999 around the same time as he won a seat on Cork City Council. However, the Great War seems to have conspired against his plans and that was not to be. The evolution of the NFL has conspired against quarterbacks selected in the first round. We have tried the kite numerous times more, but the fish have either ignored the bait or the wind has conspired against us to either stall the kite or send it spinning out of control. Many chances were created but poor finishing and a forthright penalty appeal that was turned down conspired against them. I can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon and I'm sure that events are conspiring to ensure that I'll be well and truly wound up by the end of the week. Synonyms act together, work together, combine, join, unite, ally, join forces, cooperate informal gang up rare coact Origin Late Middle English: from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare 'agree, plot', from con- 'together with' + spirare 'breathe'. spirit from Middle English: Our word spirit is based on Latin spiritus ‘breath or spirit’, from spirare ‘to breathe’—the ancient Romans believed that the human soul had been ‘breathed’ into the body—the image is the same as ‘the breath of life’. The sense ‘strong distilled alcoholic drink’ comes from the use in alchemy of spirit to mean ‘a liquid essence extracted from some substance’. People sometimes say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when they have good intentions but yield to temptation and fail to live up to them. The source is the New Testament, where Jesus uses the phrase after finding his disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane despite telling them that they should stay awake. Spirare forms the basis of numerous English words including aspire (mid 16th century) from adspirare ‘to breath upon, seek to reach’; conspire (Late Middle English) from conspirare ‘to breath together, agree’; expire (late 16th century) ‘to breath out’; inspire (Late Middle English) ‘breath into’ from the idea that a divine or outside power has inspired you; and perspire (mid 17th century) ‘to breath through’; and transpire (Late Middle English) ‘breath across. In English spirit was shortened to sprite (Middle English) which in turn developed sprightly (late 16th century). Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah Definition of conspire in US English: conspire verbkənˈspaɪ(ə)rkənˈspī(ə)r [no object] 1Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act. 阴谋，密谋；共谋 they conspired against him 他们密谋反对他。 they deny conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service 他们否认曾密谋诈骗国内税收。 Example sentencesExamples The former classroom assistant denies conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two counts of assisting an offender. This angers a cabal of evil businessmen, who somehow are profiting from the bad times, so they conspire to bring the new agency down. This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him. He also dismissed as unfounded the father's claim that his family had conspired against him and made up a story about the rape. Before he died, he believed that his doctors had conspired against him. He is forced to plead for the return of a man he conspired against, denigrated and expelled. If the parent or guardian of the person conspires to commit such acts, they will be imprisoned for from four years to twenty years. But racing, in particular, has often suffered from people who deliberately conspire to fix results, and those cheats now know that their days are numbered. He was charged with conspiring to commit wilful murder. How are you really able to argue that the ‘elite’ have conspired to achieve this result. Under that statute, anyone who conspires to commit torture - by, say, authorising it - is liable to a penalty of life imprisonment. In his eyes, he did not fail; he was conspired against and was therefore entitled to compensate for his disadvantage by bending the rules. How can one trust a system in which the government and the opposition have conspired to let an aging generation run the show? He is being prosecuted by the US government for conspiring to commit murder and aiding terrorist organizations. Those who are members of the Church and yet conspire against her commit a serious and brutal crime. They didn't lose their case because everyone conspired against them. Are the traffic planners of this city conspiring to bring the whole place to a standstill? Any person who aids, abets, counsels or conspires to commit such acts is a criminal. The Brits have just charged eight men with conspiring to commit heinous terrorist acts. Currently, conspiracy to defraud is a common law offence that requires that two or more individuals conspire to commit a fraud against another. Synonyms plot, hatch a plot, form a conspiracy, scheme, plan, lay plans, intrigue, collude, connive, collaborate, consort, machinate, manoeuvre, be hand in glove, work hand in glove 1.1 (of events or circumstances) seem to be working together to bring about a particular result, typically to someone's detriment. （事件，情况）合作，协同；凑合起来；共同促成 everything conspires to exacerbate the situation 所有的事都凑在一起使情况更糟。 Example sentencesExamples The circumstances conspire to make a sexual relation or a future together impossible. The evolution of the NFL has conspired against quarterbacks selected in the first round. As the scenery switches from Argentina to Chile to Colombia, events conspire to change our hero, as we know they will. Many chances were created but poor finishing and a forthright penalty appeal that was turned down conspired against them. The list of events, local and national, that have conspired against the tourist industry is shocking. Changing tastes in grape variety have also conspired against the humble canned vino. We have tried the kite numerous times more, but the fish have either ignored the bait or the wind has conspired against us to either stall the kite or send it spinning out of control. But, once Napoleon has returned home, he discovers that fate has conspired against him. People on the doorstep were positive about us but the demographics conspired against us. Occasionally events conspire to imbue these great-leader impersonators with great symbolic power. However, the Great War seems to have conspired against his plans and that was not to be. Sarah is not merely a woman who feels like a bad mother, she is a bad mother, or least she is until circumstances conspire to jolt her into reality. I had planned to just play for an hour or two, but events soon conspired to keep me in Connecticut until nightfall. Fate and circumstances often conspire to change the direction of our lives for better or worse. I can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon and I'm sure that events are conspiring to ensure that I'll be well and truly wound up by the end of the week. Thursday's severe heat and humidity conspired against this. Each character is linked by more than just work, as hold-ups, corpses, missing children, affairs and other events conspire to alter their lives. He fell upon the road as if, when he left it behind, he would be leaving behind every small part of his life that had conspired against him. And just as it never rains but pours, so it could be said the conditions also conspired against the Minstermen. Circumstances conspired to make him national chairman from 1999 around the same time as he won a seat on Cork City Council. Synonyms act together, work together, combine, join, unite, ally, join forces, cooperate Origin Late Middle English: from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare ‘agree, plot’, from con- ‘together with’ + spirare ‘breathe’.
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