maquinar

v.

to machinate, to plot.

maquinar algo contra alguien to plot something against somebody

Ella discurre engaños She contrives tricks.

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maquinar

► verbo transitivo

1 to scheme, plot

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verb

to plot, scheme

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VT VI to plot

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verbo transitivo to plot, scheme

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= conspire, finesse, cook up, scheme, concoct.

Ex. There is a future for the public library, despite competing social and economic needs which would seem to conspire to preclude one.

Ex. The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets.

Ex. He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.

Ex. This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.

Ex. Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.

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verbo transitivo to plot, scheme

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= conspire, finesse, cook up, scheme, concoct.

Ex: There is a future for the public library, despite competing social and economic needs which would seem to conspire to preclude one.

Ex: The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets.

Ex: He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.

Ex: This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.

Ex: Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.

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maquinar [A1 ]

vt

to plot, scheme

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maquinar (conjugate maquinar) verbo transitivo
to plot, scheme
maquinar verbo transitivo to scheme, plot
'maquinar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
discurrir
- tejer
English:
engineer

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maquinar vt

to plot, to scheme;

estaban maquinando una conspiración contra el gobierno they were plotting against the government

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maquinar

v/t plot

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maquinar vt

: to plot, to scheme