She would not have guessed him a conspiring type. ![]() All this has conspired to turn a rich business into a relatively poor one.Every now and then nature conspires to rivet homeowners' attention on a particular maintenance problem.Design and costs conspire to make many working-class' households huddle as they always have - all together in one room.Kevin Maxwell faced two charges of conspiring to defraud pensioners.He had not only denied the fact of his own body, he had actually conspired against it.Berating Park, Carter threatened to continue the withdrawal despite all opposition and accused his aides of conspiring against him.The President called a meeting and accused his aides of conspiring against him.Circumstances were really conspiring against her!. ![]() → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus conspire conspire against Emily felt that everything was conspiring against her. 2 TIME/AT THE SAME TIME if events conspire to do something, they happen at the same time and make something bad happen conspire to do something Pollution and neglect have conspired to ruin the city. ![]() conspire against There was some evidence that he had been conspiring against the government. ○○ verb 1 PLAN to secretly plan with someone else to do something illegal → conspiracy conspire (with somebody) to do something All six men admitted conspiring to steal cars.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English conspire con‧spire / kənˈspaɪə $ -ˈspaɪr /
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