Other forms: conspiring, conspired, conspires
To conspire is to secretly plan wrongdoing together. Conspire to defraud, conspire against him, events conspired.
It takes two: one person cannot conspire alone, and in law the agreement itself is the offence, whether or not anything follows. The Latin means to breathe together. Events are often said to conspire, which is a way of blaming nobody.
1verbconspireTo secretly plan wrongdoing together.
“The two ministers conspired to hide the report from the public.”
conspire is a planning.
Also accepted in games: plot, scheme
Latin conspirare means to breathe together — con, with, plus spirare, to breathe. Spirit is a relative.
Latin
conspirare
Old French
conspirer
Middle English
conspiren
English, today
conspire
Built from
From Middle English conspiren, from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare, conspīrō, from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + spīrō (“breathe”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA