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Word: Connive
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’, from con- ‘together’ + an unrecorded word related to nictare ‘to wink’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
kəˈnʌɪv
Dialects: British English
Definition:
secretly allow (something immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur
Short Definition:secretly allow something immoral, illegal, or harmful to occur
Examples:- I did not connive in the production of these documents
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