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Synonyms for conspire

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Synonyms for conspire

to work out a secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end

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Synonyms for conspire

engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose

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"To conspire, no doubt, with your enemies, the Huguenots and the Spaniards."
Let us therefore come in." They came in, and "this regiment" withdrew to conspire under the leadership of Dan Grady.
But I tell you, at the very outset, it won't be such an easy matter for you to conspire. First of all, you will have no books, no paper, and no conjuring book.
He is also to be authorized to grant "reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed.
(As to there being no insurrections, although the people share not in the management of public affairs, this is no proof of a well-constituted government, as the kosmoi have no opportunity of being bribed like the ephori, as they live in an [1272b] island far from those who would corrupt them.) But the method they take to correct that fault is absurd, impolitic, and tyrannical: for very often either their fellow-magistrates or some private persons conspire together and turn out the kosmoi .