0 past simple and past participle of scheme --
1 to make clever, secret plans that often deceive others: --
[ + to infinitive ] For months he had been scheming to prevent her from getting the top job.
All her assistants were scheming against her.
Gary continually schemed to retain his position on the show.
The situation for the defenders grew progressively more dire, as their forces for interfering with the siege dwindled and advisers schemed against each other.
In the 340s he schemed to become the tyrant.
The two men schemed to get him out of the fort where they could perform the treachery unseen.
It would be tragic if those people, who had worked so hard, and who had planned and schemed for the future, had no opportunity of building their hospital.
It is due to people who worked and schemed and are now sometimes forgotten, and who were sometimes thrown into the wilderness two or three years ago.
I may say that in addition to such schemed we are also considering schemes for the working of lime and chalk as fertilizers on land.
That would depend on the way in which it was schemed.
