MEANING
1. To act or plan with others in secret, especially toward wrongdoing.
2. To work together as circumstances producing a result.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- conspire against someone
- conspire to deceive
On the page
The witnesses were accused of conspiring to conceal the transfer.
Word forms
- Base
- conspire
- Past tense
- conspired
- Past participle
- conspired
- Present participle
- conspiring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- conspire
- Present continuous
- am/is/are conspiring
- Present perfect
- have/has conspired
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been conspiring
- Past
- conspired
- Past continuous
- was/were conspiring
- Past perfect
- had conspired
- Past perfect continuous
- had been conspiring
- Future
- will conspire
- Future continuous
- will be conspiring
- Future perfect
- will have conspired
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been conspiring
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: conspire; conspires; conspired; conspired; conspiring Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: conspires.
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