| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To work out a secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end: collude, conspire, intrigue, machinate, plot, scheme. See CRIMES, PLANNED. | | PHRASAL VERB: | connive at To pretend not to see: blink (at), disregard, ignore, pass over, wink at. Idioms: be blind to, close (or shut) one's eyes to, look the other way, turn a blind eye to. See SEE.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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