suborn

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The single sentry he could suborn, or else--if bribery failed--poniard.

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  1. transitive verb To induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act.
  2. transitive verb Law To induce (a person) to commit perjury.
  3. transitive verb Law To procure (perjured testimony).

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  • Jordan and Saudi Arabia have managed to corrupt the PLO leadership, to suborn them with the promise of power at the expense of liberty for their people, creating a first â a liberation movement that collaborated with the occupier. —  Darwiniana
  • Israel and its allies in the west and in Arab regimes such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have managed to corrupt the PLO leadership, to suborn them with the promise of power at the expense of liberty for their people, creating a first - a liberation movement that collaborated with the occupier. —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Supreme Court in the case of death row inmate Delma Banks "and argue that the state of Texas should be able to suborn perjury and hide evidence with impunity in its quest to get the death penalty." —  The StandDown Texas Project
  • And the art form is not simply to defeat those internal controls, but to suborn them, to turn them into your greatest allies. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • It could be that it was impossible to suborn enough of the lower ranks to be able to do that without it being even more obvious than 9 / 11. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
 

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  1. Latin subōrnāre : sub-, secretly; see sub- + ōrnāre, to equip; see ar- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French suborner = Spanish Portuguese subornar = Italian subornare, from Latin subornare, furnish, equip, fit out, incite secretly, from sub, under, + ornare, fit out, provide, ornament.
 

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