complot
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- complotment noun
- complotter noun
Etymology
Origin of complot
1570–80; < Middle French; compare Old French complot dense crowd, accord, understanding, conspiracy, complote assembly (of troops); of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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Jack Reacher descubre un complot a nivel estatal para culpar a Susan Turner, la antigua jefa de su unidad, de traición al gobierno.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019
That was the time in which my father, with indescribable goodness, and in complot with you all, sold the half of his library to furnish me with the means of foreign travel.
From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)
He fancies, or asserts himself, the victim of a domestic complot against him;—accounts are accounts—prices are prices;—let him make out a fair detail.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
To what fell complot was I then exposed!
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
Rodoricke, thou highly favourest me in this And doubt not, if my complot take effect, Ile make thee Duke of Burbon.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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