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suborn

/suh-bawrn/US // səˈbɔrn //UK // (səˈbɔːn) //

潜伏,潜规则,潜入,潜行

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to bribe or induce 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.
    • : Law. to induce to give false testimony.to obtain from a witness.

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Examples

  • This time, the heirs of the Confederacy have learned that is more effective to suborn the government than secede.

  • By rejecting this last attempt to suborn a dereliction of duty, Henry saved my reputation, my honor, my life, really.

  • If Blondel tampered with any one, he would naturally, if he knew aught of the house, suborn Claude or Anne.

  • Was there no postman or postmaster whom he could suborn to intercept them for him?

  • Meanwhile you suborn 'unwarranted belief' by making belief a matter of reward and penalty.

  • But the audacious Lauzun found means to suborn a well-meaning simpleton of a priest, who married them secretly the very same day.

  • For this purpose, he endeavoured to suborn a poet who lived under his patronage.