conspire
pronunciation
How to pronounce conspire in British English:
UK [kənˈspaɪə(r)]
How to pronounce conspire in American English:
US [kənˈspaɪər]
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- Verb:
- engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together
- act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose
Word Origin
- conspire
- conspire: see spirit
- conspire (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French conspirer (14c.), from Latin conspirare "to agree, unite, plot," literally "to breathe together," from com- "together" (see com-) + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit (n.)). Or perhaps the notion is "to blow together" musical instruments, i.e., "To sound in unison." Related: Conspired; conspiring.
Example
- 1. Yet policies at every level conspire to wreak its destruction .
- 2. Benshan and the gala conspire to kill his skit ;
- 3. Illegal deforestation happens when ranchers and loggers conspire to clear swathes of land .
- 4. The climate talks in durban were slotted by the papers into the same narrative , in which climate scientists and the bbc conspire to shut down the economy and send us back to the stone age .
- 5. The league claimed that it was immune from antitrust scrutiny because , even though it consisted of 32 clubs , it acted as a " single entity " , which could not conspire with itself .