connive

Definitions


[kəˈnʌɪv], (Verb)

Definitions:
- secretly allow (something immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur
(e.g: I did not connive in the production of these documents)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’, from con- ‘together’ + an unrecorded word related to nictare ‘to wink’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries