CONNIVE, verb intransitive [Latin , to wink.] 1. To wink; to close and open the eyelids rapidly. 2. In a figurative sense, to close the eyes upon a fault or other act; to pretend ignorance or blindness; to forbear to see; to overlook a fault or other act, and suffer it to pass unnoticed, uncensured or unpunished; as, the father connives at the vices of his son.
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