Plotting Plotted Plot Verb Bre Plɒt Plɑːt Accused

• they were accused of plotting against the state.
• military officers were suspected of plotting a coup.
• she spends every waking hour plotting her revenge.
• they were plotting to overthrow the government.

plot

1. to make a secret plan to harm somebody, especially a government or its leader
• synonym conspire
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/conspire
• They were accused of plotting against the state.
• Military officers were suspected of plotting a coup.
• She spends every waking hour plotting her revenge.
• They were plotting to overthrow the government.
2. to mark something on a map, for example the position or course of something
• The earthquake centres had been plotted on a world map.
• He plotted a new route across the Atlantic.
3. to make a diagram or chart from some information
• We carefully plotted each patient's response to the drug on a chart.
4. to mark points on a graph and draw a line or curve connecting them
• First, plot the temperature curve on the graph.
5. to write the plot of a novel, play, etc.
• See related entries: Writing and publishing
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/writing_and_publishing/plot_4
• a tightly-plotted thriller

Extra Examples

• Greenhouse temperature can be plotted against plant growth.
• He was arrested on suspicion of plotting against the king.
• Taylor plotted with his daughter to murder her husband.
• The figures are plotted on a graph.
• The killings were carefully plotted and not impulsive.
• The positions of the archaeological finds are accurately plotted.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they plot
• he / she / it plots
• past simple plotted
• past participle plotted
• -ing form plotting

Word Origin

• late Old English (in sense 3 of the noun), of unknown origin. The sense ‘secret plan’, dating from the late 16th cent., is associated with Old French complot ‘dense crowd, secret project’, the same word being used occasionally in English from the mid 16th cent.