connive

/kuh-nahyv/US // kəˈnaɪv //UK // (kəˈnaɪv) //

纵容,隐瞒,默许,欺瞒

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb

1
con·nived, con·niv·ing.
- : to cooperate secretly; conspire: They connived to take over the business.
- : to avoid noticing something that one is expected to oppose or condemn; give aid to wrongdoing by forbearing to act or speak: The policeman connived at traffic violations.
- : to be indulgent toward something others oppose or criticize: to connive at childlike exaggerations.

verbplot, scheme

Forms: conniving

Synonyms

When they couldn't connive and consume they turned into black and white and had nothing left to live for.
They would never connive at this second sowing of the dragon's teeth of Cadmus.
Werther, however, did not abandon his enterprise, and even besought the judge to connive at the flight of the prisoner.
What was there astonishing in that King James, not wishing to shed your blood on the scaffold, should connive at your escape?
No money-making graft is too petty or too immoral for the MacMorroghs to connive at.
When I suggested that he connive with the governor toward removing our sheriff, he declared that the governor was a coward.

/kuh-nahyv/US // kəˈnaɪv //UK // (kəˈnaɪv) //

纵容,隐瞒,默许,欺瞒

v.无主动词 verb

1
con·nived, con·niv·ing.
- : to cooperate secretly; conspire: They connived to take over the business.
- : to avoid noticing something that one is expected to oppose or condemn; give aid to wrongdoing by forbearing to act or speak: The policeman connived at traffic violations.
- : to be indulgent toward something others oppose or criticize: to connive at childlike exaggerations.

verbplot, scheme

Forms: conniving

Synonyms

When they couldn't connive and consume they turned into black and white and had nothing left to live for.
They would never connive at this second sowing of the dragon's teeth of Cadmus.
Werther, however, did not abandon his enterprise, and even besought the judge to connive at the flight of the prisoner.
What was there astonishing in that King James, not wishing to shed your blood on the scaffold, should connive at your escape?
No money-making graft is too petty or too immoral for the MacMorroghs to connive at.
When I suggested that he connive with the governor toward removing our sheriff, he declared that the governor was a coward.