conspire

«conspire» in Mova's school dictionary: To plan secretly with other people to do something bad or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (conspire, conspires, conspired, conspiring)

meaning for a pupil

1) To plan secretly with other people to do something bad or against the law. tree →

2) (of events) To happen together in a way that causes a bad result, as if planning it: «Everything conspired to make us late». tree →

3) (playful) To plan something together in secret, such as a surprise. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and stories: people conspire against a king, a teacher, or a hero; in the Bible, enemies conspire against kings and prophets. In everyday talk, «the weather conspired against us» means bad luck happened. It tells the reader there is a secret plan or bad luck piling up. Phrases: «conspire against», «conspire to do», «conspire with».

examples

• The guards conspired to free the prisoner. tree →
• The villains conspired against the queen. tree →
• Rain and traffic conspired to make us miss the start of the match. tree →
• My brother and I conspired to surprise Mum with breakfast in bed. tree →
• In the story, the foxes conspire with the crows to steal the eggs. tree →
• Everything seemed to conspire against our picnic. tree →
• The twins were caught conspiring in whispers behind the shed. tree →
• After a time the wife falls in love with the hunchback and conspires with him to kill her husband. tree →

note

Regular verb. Noun: «conspiracy» (a secret plan by a group); a person who conspires is a «conspirator». «Conspiracy theory» is a belief that a secret group is behind events, often without good evidence — be careful with such claims and check facts.

In the corpora

• And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
• And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
• and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
• And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «conspire» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.