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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#m2)

3) (playful) To plan something together in secret, such as a surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#x1)
- The villains conspired against the queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#x2)
- Rain and traffic conspired to make us miss the start of the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#x3)
- My brother and I conspired to surprise Mum with breakfast in bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#x4)
- In the story, the foxes conspire with the crows to steal the eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#x5)
- Everything seemed to conspire against our picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#x6)
- The twins were caught conspiring in whispers behind the shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#x7)
- After a time the wife falls in love with the hunchback and conspires with him to kill her husband. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1196/)
- [And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.674/)
- [and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.84/)
- [And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.794/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conspire» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspire/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.