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Definition
secretly plan together to do something — especially something illegal or harmfulor:
of events and circumstances: seemingly cooperate to achieve something
- They conspired to overthrow the government
conspired = secretly planned together
- The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall
- Will you tell me now what persons conspired with you in the Devil's company?Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.George Orwell -- 1984
- An hour later violent gusts started blowing down from the desert, and the wind and tidal rips conspired to carry him out to sea.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
- ...the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to...Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- The hour—the calm beauty of the season—the occasion, all conspired to fill the spectators with solemn awe.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- She and Alex Cross had conspired to ruin his unique creation, his precious and very private art, his life as it had been.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- Fate and Genet had conspired to kill my liver, but Shiva had a role in Genet's fate, and hence my fate.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- How could so many events have conspired together?Stephen King -- Cujo
- Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath: What further woe conspires against mine age?William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- It was part of being hopelessly poor that events conspired to keep you poor; if it wasn't one thing, it was another.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- At Bod's approach they looked up, startled, then fled into the undergrowth, as if they had been caught conspiring.Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
- Jon climbed from the water, dried, dressed, and left them to conspire.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- Then they both laughed together like two conspiring children.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been.Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
- —Delaford,—that place in which so much conspired to give her an interest; which she wished to be acquainted with, and yet desired to avoid.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- The concussions from the bombs, the drug lingering in my system, the loss of blood, the darkness .... all of it conspires to pin me down.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
conspired = cooperated
conspiring = secretly working together to achieve something
conspire = make secret plans to do something
conspired = worked together
conspires = seemingly cooperates (to achieve something)
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