Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to connive
Participle: connived
Gerund: conniving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | connive |
| you | connive |
| he;she;it | connives |
| we | connive |
| you | connive |
| they | connive |
Perfect
| I | have connived |
| you | have connived |
| he;she;it | has connived |
| we | have connived |
| you | have connived |
| they | have connived |
Past
| I | connived |
| you | connived |
| he;she;it | connived |
| we | connived |
| you | connived |
| they | connived |
Pluperfect
| I | had connived |
| you | had connived |
| he;she;it | had connived |
| we | had connived |
| you | had connived |
| they | had connived |
Future
| I | will connive |
| you | will connive |
| he;she;it | will connive |
| we | will connive |
| you | will connive |
| they | will connive |
Future Perfect
| I | will have connived |
| you | will have connived |
| he;she;it | will have connived |
| we | will have connived |
| you | will have connived |
| they | will have connived |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | connive |
| you | connive |
| he;she;it | connive |
| we | connive |
| you | connive |
| they | connive |
Perfect
| I | have connived |
| you | have connived |
| he;she;it | have connived |
| we | have connived |
| you | have connived |
| they | have connived |
Imperfect
| I | connived |
| you | connived |
| he;she;it | connived |
| we | connived |
| you | connived |
| they | connived |
Pluperfect
| I | had connived |
| you | had connived |
| he;she;it | had connived |
| we | had connived |
| you | had connived |
| they | had connived |
Conditional
Present
| I | would connive |
| you | would connive |
| he;she;it | would connive |
| we | would connive |
| you | would connive |
| they | would connive |
Perfect
| I | would have connived |
| you | would have connived |
| he;she;it | would have connived |
| we | would have connived |
| you | would have connived |
| they | would have connived |
Imperative
| you | connive |
| we | Let's connive |
| you | connive |
Verbs conjugated like 'connive'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'connive'
convive,
cognise,
cognize,
concave,
conceive,
concise,
concite,
condite,
confide,
confine,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1602, from L.
conivere "to wink," from
com- "together" + base akin to
nictare "to wink," from PIE base
*knei-gwh- "to bend." Hence, "to wink at (a crime), be secretly privy."
2. From French conniver (“to ignore and thus become complicit in wrongdoing”), or directly from its etymon Latin con(n)īvēre (“close or screw up the eyes, blink, wink; overlook, turn a blind eye, connive”) (perhaps alluding to two persons involved in a scheme together winking to each other), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + *nīvēre (related to nictō (“to blink, wink”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneygʷʰ- (“to bend, droop”)). See: French '
conniver', Latin '
coniveo'.
Sample Sentences
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“ Wife, you talk like a fool ! Really, it will be something pretty awkward for me, if she is. Haley saw that I hesitated about selling this child, and he'll think I connived at it, to get him out of the way. It touches my honor ! ” And Mr. Shelby left the room hastily.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] had all felt as they should, in times past, the sons of the free states would not have been the holders, and, proverbially, the hardest masters of slaves; the sons of the free states would not have connived at the extension of slavery, in our national body; the sons of the free states would not, as they do, trade the souls and bodies of men as an equivalent to money, in their mercantile dealings. There [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)