conspiring
present participle ofconspire
| 单词 | conspiring |
| 释义 | conspiring present participle ofconspire conspire verb[I] uk/kənˈspaɪər/us/kənˈspaɪr/toplansecretlywith otherpeopleto do somethingbad,illegal, or against someone'swishes: [+ to infinitive]Hefeltthat hiscolleagueswere conspiringtogethertoremovehim from hisjob. Asgirls, thesistersused to conspirewitheach otheragainsttheirbrother. Synonyms colludeformal plot(PLAN) Plotting & trapping
Phrasal verbconspire againstsomething Examplesofconspiringconspiring In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Moreover, growing inclination to question the state was accompanied by social tensions apparent in belief that elites wereconspiringagainst the people through famine plots. From theCambridge English Corpus This, in spite of the fact that they then also ran the risk of being accused ofconspiringagainst the state. From theCambridge English Corpus Secondly, there was a danger of the executiveconspiringwith members of the legislature to ensure his reelection. From theCambridge English Corpus The changes involved have traditionally been understood asconspiringto optimize syllable quantity according to the position of the syllable in the word. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, at least on one level, music mimes the narrative progress of the text,conspiringwith it to ignore the trail of discontinuities left by the constraints of censorship. From theCambridge English Corpus To the contrary: the author isconspiringto make the reader only too aware of the act in which she is engaged; the irony lies in revelation, not pretense. From theCambridge English Corpus But as the structure of obligation moves forward in time, revenge becomes an expression neither simply of fourconspiringboys, nor even of their organized-crime neighbors. From theCambridge English Corpus To make things even worse, several factors have come into play together, as ifconspiringto hit farmers when they are down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Six are accused ofconspiringto intimidate men to abstain from work and all 24 are charged with fighting and making an affray. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are notconspiringto commit a crime or something of that kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I meant a case where both were concerned together in a breach of the peace—conspiringtogether. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be a matter ofconspiringto incite, but each case would have to stand upon its own merits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The problem, in my opinion, is that technological development isconspiringto make this situation less rather than more likely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are notconspiringto find a way of gaining access to further information about the detailed content of communications at some later date. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Centralisation, bureaucratic overload, directive after directive and narrow political targets are allconspiringto drive dedicated and capable teachers out of the profession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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