connive
Meaning of connive
verb
- Often followed by with: to secretly cooperate with another person or persons in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
- Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
- To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Information about connive
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of connive
con-nive
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- connive is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Translation of connive
- French: manigancer, conspirer
- Spanish: conspirar, intrigar, maquinar, confabular
- German: intrigieren
- Italian: intrigare, tramare, trescare, intrallazzare, complottare
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