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Synonyms for conspired

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuhn-spahyuhr
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈspaɪər

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Définition of conspired

Origin :
  • 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.
  • verb plot, scheme with someone
  • verb agree, concur
Example sentences :
  • If the railway directorates of Europe conspired against them, what chance had they?
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Let me begin to do you the injustice I have conspired to do you, there—not here.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • He has conspired against me, like the rest, and they are but birds of one feather.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • Do you mean to say, Captain Ussher, that I have conspired to murdher you?
  • Extract from : « The Macdermots of Ballycloran » by Anthony Trollope
  • We are not conspiring, said Charmides, we have conspired already.
  • Extract from : « Charmides » by Plato
  • Every one has conspired against me, and ruin is near at hand.
  • Extract from : « The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II (of 2) » by Alexandre Dumas pre
  • It was as though fate had conspired to show the boy in the blackest light.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Knew » by Edgar Wallace
  • They conspired to kill Duhaut and his most resolute supporter Liotot.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
  • It was an attitude which conspired for relief on both sides.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
  • This morning I was feeling fairly fit: things had conspired to this end.
  • Extract from : « They and I » by Jerome K. Jerome

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