| 单词 | suborn |
| 释义 | suborn (once / 12211 pages) v One of the reasons Mafia bosses are so good at avoiding prison is that they know how to suborn witnesses and jurors — that is, to bribe people to lie. After all, it wouldn't be nice if an accident were to happen on the way to court, right? Technically speaking, suborn doesn't just mean induce someone to conveniently "forget" something in the witness stand, or otherwise get creative with their imagination. An inducement to any kind of crime is suborning, but by far the most common use is in the legal sense above. Or "witness tampering," as the cops call it. WORD FAMILYsuborn: subornation, suborned, suborner, suborning, suborns+/suborner: suborners USAGE EXAMPLESJealous neighbours easily suborn the police into arresting them. Economist(Jul 14, 2016) But Chávez’s rule serves as a warning: the longer he was in office the more intolerant he became, suborning state institutions to his will. The Guardian(Jun 22, 2016) I am amazed the socially enlightened young technocrats in VW’s engineering bureaucracy would suborn this. Wall Street Journal(Sep 24, 2015) 1v incite to commit a crime or an evil deed He suborned his butler to cover up the murder of his wife Hyper corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality 2v induce to commit perjury or give false testimony The President tried to suborn false witnesses Hyper cause, get, have, induce, make, stimulate cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner 3v procure (false testimony or perjury) Hyper procure, secure get by special effort |
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