Verb

(conniv)

to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude

to plot or scheme

to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately

* Jeremy Taylor

to connive at what it does not approve

* Burke

In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving .

* Macaulay

The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.

(archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

* Spectator

The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.

to be a wench

Verb

(collid)

To impact directly, especially if violent

When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.

* Tyndall

Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide , they recoil, they oscillate.

* Carlyle

No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding .

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To come into conflict, or be incompatible

China collided with the modern world.