0 past simple and past participle of conspire
1 to plan secretly with other people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone's wishes:
[ + to infinitive ] He felt that his colleagues were conspiring together to remove him from his job.
As girls, the sisters used to conspire with each other against their brother.
And these old southerners also conspired as a group to forestall any challenge to the southern segregation system, their obsessive interest.
There is no allegation that this was done because of the race or color of the persons conspired against.
Popular culture and scientific liberalism thus conspired to sketch out firm maps of the extent of human personality and the limited ambit of scientific representation.
Together, these have conspired to eat away at the status of canonical composers and categories of high and low in music.
They blasphemed and sang dirty songs, struck up illicit conversations with female inmates, conspired to escape, and plotted revenge against personal enemies or the government.
Yet the urban environment often conspired against this.
And politicians have conspired to hide this ugly truth.
Two factors conspired to undermine the new modus operandi.
