"collude" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /kəˈluːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-collude.wav [Southern-England] Forms: colludes [present, singular, third-person], colluding [participle, present], colluded [participle, past], colluded [past]
Rhymes: -uːd Etymology: * From Latin colludere, from con- and ludere (“to play”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|colludere}} Latin colludere Head templates: {{en-verb}} collude (third-person singular simple present colludes, present participle colluding, simple past and past participle colluded)
  1. (intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire Tags: intransitive Synonyms: to be in cahoots, conspire, plot, scheme Related terms: collusion Translations (to conspire): conspirar (Catalan), colluderen (Dutch), samenzweren (Dutch), samenspannen (Dutch), juonitella (Finnish), toimia salaliitossa (Finnish), faire collusion (French), comploter (French), colluder [dated] [law] (French), zusammenspielen (German), kolludieren (German), συνωμοτώ (synomotó) (Greek), összejátszik (Hungarian), koluzionar (Ido), сгова́риваться (sgovárivatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), сговори́ться (sgovorítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), coludir (Spanish), conspirar (Spanish), konspirera (Swedish), stå i maskopi (Swedish), spela under täcket (Swedish), змовля́тися (zmovljátysja) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), змо́витися (zmóvytysja) [perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-collude-en-verb-ZIEV8xgm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to conspire",
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      "sense": "to conspire",
      "word": "kolludieren"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "synomotó",
      "sense": "to conspire",
      "word": "συνωμοτώ"
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      "sense": "to conspire",
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      "sense": "to conspire",
      "word": "koluzionar"
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      "roman": "sgovárivatʹsja",
      "sense": "to conspire",
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "to conspire",
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      "word": "сговори́ться"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to conspire",
      "word": "coludir"
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      "sense": "to conspire",
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      "sense": "to conspire",
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      "word": "stå i maskopi"
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      "sense": "to conspire",
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