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What does connive mean?

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Verb
  1. To cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude.
  2. To plot or scheme.
  3. To pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately.
  4. (archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
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And even worse, he may take the weekends to plan and conspire and connive and make sure that he isn't caught when he goes back on his shooting spree during the week.
She was afraid to leave her lest she connive with Stowe Webb at some escapade.
To connive at the perpetuation of slavery is to disobey the commands of Heaven.
Nor is it right for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to connive with that purpose.
Together they connive in cahoots and scheme to create the world's worst musical, a guaranteed catastrophic dog of a show.
Now they want to connive, aided and abetted by the separatist Bloc, to overturn the results of an election held only seven weeks ago.

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