Bribe vs Suborned - What's the difference?
bribe | suborned |
Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.
* Hobart
That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
* Akenside
To give a to.
* F. W. Robertson
To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.
(suborn)
To induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury
To procure privately, or by collusion; to incite secretly; to instigate.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between bribe and suborned
is that bribe is to give a to while suborned is (suborn).As a noun bribe
is something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.bribe
English
Noun
(en noun)- Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe .
- Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(brib)- Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
- to bribe somebody's compliance
suborned
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *suborn
English
Verb
(en verb)- Thou art suborned against his honour.
- Those who by despair suborn their death.