conspire

See also: conspiré

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare, conspīrō, from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + spīrō (“breathe”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results.
   • Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 18

     They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.

2. (intransitive) To agree, to concur to one end.
   • Roscommon

     The press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age.

   • 1744, Georg Friedrich Händel, Hercules, act 3, scene 5

     I feel my vanquish'd heart conspire

     To crown a flame by Heav'n approv'd.

3. (transitive) To try to bring about.
   • Bishop Hall

   Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.

Synonyms

• (secretly plot): collogue

Related terms

• co-conspirator
• conspiracy
• conspiration
• conspirator
• inspire
• spirit

Translations

to secretly plot

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: تَآمَرَ (taʔāmara), اِئْتَمَرَ (ar) (iʔtamara)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: заговорнича (bg) (zagovorniča)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勾结 (zh) (gōujié)

• Dutch: samenzweren (nl)
• Esperanto: konspiri
• Finnish: juonitella
• Galician: urdir
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: sich verschwören
• Greek: συνωμοτώ (el) (synomotó)
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• Hungarian: összeesküszik (hu), konspirál (hu)
• Indonesian: berkomplot (id)
• Kashubian: kònspirowac
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whakatakoto kara, kakai
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: spiskować (pl) impf, konspirować impf, kombinować impf, knuć (pl) impf, uknuć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: conspirar (pt)
• Russian: замышля́ть (ru) impf (zamyšljátʹ), сгова́риваться (ru) impf (sgovárivatʹsja)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: cynllwynio (cy)

to try to make things go a certain way

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Anagrams

• incorpse, scorpine

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: conspirent, conspires

Verb

conspire

1. first-person singular present indicative of conspirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of conspirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of conspirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of conspirer
5. second-person singular imperative of conspirer

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Portuguese

Verb

conspire

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konsˈpiɾe/ [kõnsˈpi.ɾe]

Verb

conspire

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of conspirar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of conspirar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of conspirar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of conspirar.