亚洲网紅露点

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suborn

[ suh-bawrn ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime

    The drug cartel suborned the local police department to turn a blind eye to their trafficking.

  2. Law.
    1. to induce (a person, especially a witness) to give false testimony.
    2. to obtain (false testimony) from a witness.


suborn

/ 藢s蕦b蓴藧藞ne瑟蕛蓹n; s蓹藞b蓴藧n; s蕦藞b蓴藧n蓹t瑟v /

verb

  1. to bribe, incite, or instigate (a person) to commit a wrongful act
  2. criminal law to induce (a witness) to commit perjury
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 蝉耻产藞辞谤苍别谤, noun
  • subornation, noun
  • subornative, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉耻产路辞谤路苍补路迟颈辞苍 [suhb-awr-, ney, -sh, uh, n], noun
  • 蝉耻产路辞谤路苍补路迟颈惫别 [s, uh, -, bawr, -n, uh, -tiv], adjective
  • 蝉耻产路辞谤苍顎侥谤 noun
  • 耻苍顎却耻产路辞谤苍别诲顎 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of suborn1

First recorded in 1525鈥35; from Latin 蝉耻产辞谤苍腻谤别 鈥渢o instigate secretly, prepare clandestinely,鈥 originally, 鈥渢o supply,鈥 equivalent to sub-, preposition and prefix + 辞谤苍腻谤别 鈥渢o equip,鈥 from an assumed 辞谤诲苍腻谤别, a derivative of the noun 辞谤诲艒 (stem ordin- ) 鈥渓ine, row, rank, grade鈥; sub-, order
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of suborn1

C16: from Latin 蝉耻产辞谤苍腻谤别, from sub- secretly + 辞谤苍腻谤别 to furnish
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Example Sentences

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The newly elected disrict attorney said his office's stance on the case could change if the brothers "completely accept responsibility for their lies of self-defense and the attempted suborning of perjury they engaged in".

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Lawyers can't advise you to lie, or they will be suborning perjury.

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Stanford鈥檚 former sailing coach pleaded guilty to conspiring with Singer, but no evidence has emerged that Singer suborned any coaches or officials at Harvard.

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Shredding decency, inviting foreign interference in our elections, suborning insurrection: All those trespasses could be tolerated.

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"It feels like going back into a type of slavery and control, where other people get to decide they will suborn me," she said.

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subordinationismsubornation of perjury