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suborn | bribery |

As a verb suborn

is to induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury.

As a noun bribery is

the making of illegal payment, or bribes, to persons in official positions as a means of influencing their decisions.

suborn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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
    • Thou art suborned against his honour.
  • * Dryden
    • Those who by despair suborn their death.

    Derived terms

    * subornation * subornative * suborner

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    * * English transitive verbs

    bribery

    English

    Noun

    (briberies)
  • the making of illegal payment, or bribes, to persons in official positions as a means of influencing their decisions
  • (legal) the activity of giving, offering or accepting bribes