0 past simple and past participle of scheme
1 to make clever, secret plans that often deceive others:
All her assistants were scheming against her.
[ + to infinitive ] For months he had been scheming to prevent her from getting the top job.
You have to tackle the problem of something which the opponent has schemed to the very utmost of his ability to make sudden and unexpected.
I am grateful to him indeed for having planned and schemed for all that to happen.
I have planned and schemed to get here.
These things should be "schemed out" and arranged, and constables could be stationed to change the timing of this particular apparatus.
The objectives for which he managed, schemed and contrived were, however, in my view, wrong.
Would he consider the advisability of asking gas companies to co-operate in any schemed the kind?
What we are criticising is not something which was schemed-up to be criticised.
That would depend on the way in which it was schemed.
