Suborn

//səˈbɔːn//

Synonyms for "suborn" (36 found)

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Translations

10 translations across 2 languages.

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Finnish

4 entries
  • houkuttaa verb (to induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner)
  • hyödyntää verb (to make use of (something), especially for corrupt or dishonest reasons)
  • toimittaa verb (to procure or provide (something) secretly and often in a dishonest manner)
  • vietellä verb (to achieve (some result; specifically, perjury) in a corrupt manner)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • по́дбуцне verb (to induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner)
  • по́ттикне verb (to induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner)
  • преди́звика verb (to induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner)

Sample sentences

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Till thou to ſpit the venome of thy ſpite, / Subornedſt Cupid how he ſoone might ſlay me, / Abandoning his bowe and arrowes quite, / You laid his priuie complot to betray me; […]

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[H]ee ſuborneth one named Saulus and the ſouldiers of the Ievves to follovv the Gothes hard at the heeles, vvho killing ſome thouſands of them, oportunitie beeing offered, might by that meanes exaſperat at the mindes of the people and mooue them to breake the league.

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[Y]ou shall finde their tongues chayned to another mans trencher, and as it were, Knights of the Post, suborned to say, sweare and stare the uttermost they can, as those that passe not what they say, nor with what face they say it, so they say no truth.

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By heauen (fond vvretch) yͧ knovvſt not vvhat thou ſpeak'ſt, / Or elſe thou art ſuborn'd againſt his honor / In hatefull practiſe: […]

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