connive.
To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
Meaning & usage
To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Where this word comes from
From French conniver (“to ignore and thus become complicit in wrongdoing”), or directly from its etymon Latin con(n)īvēre (“close or screw up the eyes, blink, wink; overlook, turn a blind eye, connive”) (perhaps alluding to two persons involved in a scheme together winking to each other), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + *nīvēre (related to nictō (“to blink, wink”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneygʷʰ- (“to bend, droop”)).
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