- conspire against
- phr verbConspire against is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑fate
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conspire against — index frame (charge falsely), frame (prearrange) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
conspire — UK [kənˈspaɪə(r)] / US [kənˈspaɪr] verb [intransitive] Word forms conspire : present tense I/you/we/they conspire he/she/it conspires present participle conspiring past tense conspired past participle conspired 1) to secretly plan with someone to … English dictionary
conspire — con|spire [kənˈspaıə US ˈspaır] v [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: conspirer, from [i]Latin conspirare to breathe together, agree, conspire , from com ( COM ) + spirare to breathe ] 1.) to secretly plan with someone else to do something… … Dictionary of contemporary English
conspire — con|spire [ kən spaır ] verb intransitive 1. ) to secretly plan with someone to do something bad or illegal: conspire (with someone) to do something: He is accused of conspiring with three others to sell cocaine. conspire against: Anyone… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
conspire — [[t]kənspa͟ɪ͟ə(r)[/t]] conspires, conspiring, conspired 1) V RECIP If two or more people or groups conspire to do something illegal or harmful, they make a secret agreement to do it. [pl n V to inf] They d conspired to overthrow the government … English dictionary
conspire — verb (I) 1 to plan something harmful or illegal together secretly: conspire (with sb) to do sth: He had conspired with an accomplice to rob the bank. | conspire against sb: Mentally ill people sometimes believe that relatives are conspiring… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
conspire — v. 1) (D; intr.) to conspire against; with 2) (E) they conspired to overthrow the government * * * [kən spaɪə] with (D; intr.) to conspire against (E) they conspired to overthrow the government … Combinatory dictionary
conspire — Ōhumu. ♦ To conspire against, kipi, ōhumu kipi … English-Hawaiian dictionary
Conspire — Con*spire (k[o^]n*sp[imac]r ), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Conspired} (k[o^]n*sp[imac]rd ); p. pr. & vb. n. {Conspiring}.] [F. conspirer, L. conspirare to blow together, harmonize, agree, plot; con + spirare to breathe, blow. See {Spirit}.] 1. To make… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Against Apion — (lat. Contra Apionem or In Apionem) was a polemical work written by Flavius Josephus as a defense of Judaism as a classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiquity against what he perceived as more recent traditions of the Greeks. Text… … Wikipedia
