connive

Oxford American Dictionary
connive
- IPA[kəˈnīv]
美式
- v.
  
  secretly allow (something considered immoral, illegal, wrong, or harmful) to occur；conspire to do something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful
- verb: connive, 3rd person present: connives, gerund or present participle: conniving, past tense: connived, past participle: connived
- 釋義
v.
動詞
1. secretly allow (something considered immoral, illegal, wrong, or harmful) to occur you have it in your power to connive at my escape 同義詞 deliberately ignore, overlook, not take into consideration, disregard, pass over, ... 更多gloss over, take no notice of, take no account of, make allowances for, turn a blind eye to, close/shut one's eyes to, wink at, blink at, excuse, pardon, forgive, condone, let someone off with, let go, let pass, look the other way, informallet something ride反義詞 condemn, punish
▪ conspire to do something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful they connived with bank officials to launder money 同義詞 conspire, collude, be in collusion, collaborate, intrigue, ... 更多be hand in glove, plot, participate in a conspiracy, scheme, informalbe in cahoots, raremachinate, cabal, complot

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