Past tense of connive; secretly cooperated with someone in doing something wrong, or deliberately overlooked wrongdoing.
The regular past tense of 'connive,' formed by adding '-ed' to the base verb. Maintains the meaning and etymology of the present tense form.
Using the past tense makes connivance concrete—'They connived to defraud the company' turns the abstract idea into a specific historical event that actually happened.
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