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Bribe vs Brise - What's the difference?

bribe | brise |

As nouns the difference between bribe and brise

is that bribe is something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty while brise is breeze.

As a verb bribe

is to give a to.

bribe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.
  • * Hobart
    • Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe .
  • That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
  • * Akenside
    • Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (brib)
  • To give a to.
  • * F. W. Robertson
    • Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
  • To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.
    • to bribe somebody's compliance

    brise

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete, rare) A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
  • * 1616 : Richard Surflet [tr.] and Gervase Markham [aug.], Estienne and Liébault’s Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme , page 92
    • Afterward let him draw a Brise or two made fast in the yoke.

    References

    * “ †brise]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

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