Suborn

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act.
  • v. Law To induce (a person) to commit perjury.
  • v. Law To procure (perjured testimony).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury
  • v. To procure privately, or by collusion; to incite secretly; to instigate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
  • v. To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To furnish; equip; adorn; ornament.
  • To furnish or procure unlawfully; procure by indirect moans.
  • To bribe or unlawfully procure to some act of wickedness—specifically, in law, to giving false testimony; induce, as a witness, to perjury.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
  • v. induce to commit perjury or give false testimony
  • v. procure (false testimony or perjury)
  • Verb Form
    suborned    suborning    suborns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    profane    demoralise    misdirect    deprave    vitiate    debase    demoralize    pervert    corrupt    subvert   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    instigate    induce    bribe