Conspire

English

Etymology

From Latin conspīrō from con-, combining form of cum (“with”) + spīrō (“breathe”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) SAMPA: /k@n"spaI@(r)/

  Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

Verb

Conspire (third-person singular simple present Conspires, present participle conspiring, simple past and past participle conspired)

1. To secretly plot or make plans together, often used regarding something bad or illegal.
2. (intransitive) To agree, to concur to one end.
   • 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. To try to make things go a certain way.

   There's no use to conspire a good mark from him.

Thesaurus

accord, act in concert, act together, affiliate, agree, ally, amalgamate, angle, associate, band, band together, be in cahoots, be in league, brew, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cement a union, centralize, club, club together, coact, coadunate, coalesce, cogitate, coincide, collaborate, collogue, collude, combine, come together, complot, concert, concoct, concord, concur, confederate, conjoin, connive, consociate, consolidate, contrive, cook up, cooperate, correspond, countermine, counterplot, couple, devise, do business with, engineer, federalize, federate, finagle, finesse, frame, frame up, fuse, gang, gang up, get heads together, get together, go in partners, go in partnership, go partners, hang together, happen together, harmonize, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hold together, hook up, hook up with, intrigue, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up with, join with, keep together, lay a plot, league, league together, machinate, make common cause, maneuver, marry, merge, operate, organize, pair, pair off, partner, play ball, plot, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, rig, scheme, stand together, stand up with, synchronize, synergize, team up, team up with, team with, throw in together, throw in with, tie in, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wangle, wed, work together

Translations

to secretly plot

Bulgarian: заговорнича (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 陰謀 (cmn), 阴谋 (cmn) (yīnmóu), 密謀 (cmn), 密谋 (cmn) (mìmóu) Dutch: samenzweren (nl) Esperanto: konspiri (eo)

Finnish: juonitella (fi) Galician: urdir (gl) German: sich verschwören Hungarian: összeesküszik (hu), konspirál (hu) Russian: замышлять (ru), сговариваться (ru)

to try to make things go a certain way

Related terms

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

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Spanish

Verb

Conspire (infinitive conspirar)

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.