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Collude   /kəlˈud/   Listen
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Collude  v. i.  (past & past part. colluded; pres. part. colluding)  To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert. "If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition."






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"Collude" Quotes from Famous Books



... Moscow)—a fact for which we are thankful as often as we think of it. Pil. (surely Tilawe cannot be pronounced Garlic?) managed to get the king's head into Chancery, and then fibbed him. Why Major-General M'Dowall (then commanding our forces) should collude with Pil Garlic, is past our understanding. But so it was. Pil. said that a certain prince, collaterally connected with the royal house, by name Mootto Sawme, who had fled to our protection, was, or might be thought to be, the lawful king. Upon which the British general proclaimed him. What ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various

... Joy collude. One mansion hears The children shouting o'er their Christmas Tree, While in the next resound the widow's wail And weeping of the fatherless. So walk Sickness and health. One rounds the cheek at morn, The other with a ghost-like movement glides Unto the nightly ...
— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney

... together, band together, be banded together; pool; stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one;s heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples. side with, take side with, go along with, go hand in hand with, join hands with, make common cause with, strike in with, unite ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... countercharge against the petitioner, and the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1860 provided the machinery for guaranteeing these bars to divorce. This question of collusion is discussed by G.P. Bishop (op. cit., vol. ii, Ch. IX). "However just a cause may be," Bishop remarks, "if parties collude in its management, so that in real fact both parties are plaintiffs, while by the record the one appears as plaintiff and the other as defendant, it cannot go forward. All conduct of this sort, disturbing to the course of justice, falls within ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis



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