suborn
IPA: sʌbɔrn
verb
- (also figuratively) To induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
- (specifically, criminal law) To induce (someone, such as a witness) to commit perjury, for example by making a false accusation or giving false evidence.
- To achieve (some result; specifically, perjury) in a corrupt manner.
- (archaic)
- To procure or provide (something) secretly and often in a dishonest manner.
- To make use of (something), especially for corrupt or dishonest reasons.
- (obsolete)
- To aid, assist, or support (something).
- To furnish or provide (something).
- To substitute (a thing) for something else, especially secretly and often in a dishonest manner.
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Examples of "suborn" in Sentences
- Subornation of perjury is a crime.
- Attempt to suborn Wikipedia for own use.
- An attempt to suborn the Governor, Sir John Hotham, was thwarted.
- Later we learn that the loser becomes the subornation of the winner.
- He must suborn whomever he can to assist him in preserving his lies.
- The Latin word that gave us "suborn" in the early part of the 16th century is "subornare," which translates literally as "to secretly furnish or equip."
- When we suborn violence, either tacitly or overtly, as a mechanism for accomplishing everything from a good dinner to global dominion, we merely sanction its use by others as a tool for achieving whatever aim they may deem desirable.
- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, are trying to suborn governments around the world in their efforts to gain complete and total control of how ‘product’ is distributed online, and by whom.
- Big Music (aka Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music) and Hollywood (aka Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney) are now close to a year into their campaign to suborn various national governments, the aim being to turn them into copyright enforcement divisions, funded by local taxpayers.
- The solution was for the lender and the lender's agents to (1) instruct the borrower to report a certain income or even to fill out the application with false information, (2) suborn an appraiser to provide the necessary inflated market value, and (3) create fraudulent financial information that had at least minimal coherence.