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connive
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[kəˈnʌɪv], (Verb)
Definitions:
- secretly allow (something immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur
(e.g: I did not connive in the production of these documents)
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Origin
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early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’, from con- ‘together’ + an unrecorded word related to nictare ‘to wink’
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