Usually means: Secretly allow wrongdoing to occur.
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  1. connive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. connive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. connive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. connive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. connive: Vocabulary.com
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  7. connive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. connive: Wiktionary
  9. connive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. connive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. connive: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. connive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Connive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. connive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. connive: Rhymezone
  17. Connive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. connive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. connive: Free Dictionary
  20. connive: Mnemonic Dictionary
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verb:  (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
verb:  (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

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