scheme
/skiːm/ verb C2- To plot, or contrive a plan; to maneuver.
- To plan; to contrive; to maneuver.
He/she/it schemes · Past schemed · Past participle schemed · -ing form scheming
Verb forms
- Base form
- scheme
- He/she/it
- schemes
- Past
- schemed
- Past participle
- schemed
- -ing form
- scheming
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I’ve been kind of opposed to this concert scheme, but I suppose there’s no real harm in it after all.
“That would be a good scheme,” said Elizabeth, “if you were sure that they would not offer to send her home.”
Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme; assuring him that Mr.
Such was Miss Lucas’s scheme; and appearances were so favourable, that when they parted at night, she would have felt almost sure of success if he had not been to leave Hertfordshire so very soon.
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