suborn
suborn 英 [səˈbɔ:n] 美 [səˈbɔrn]
vt. 唆使；收买；使作伪证
进行时:suborning 过去式:suborned 过去分词:suborned 第三人称单数:suborns
- One of the reasons Mafia bosses are so good at avoiding prison is that they know how to suborn witnesses and jurors — that is, to bribe people to lie. After all, it wouldn't be nice if an accident were to happen on the way to court, right?
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- vt. 唆使；收买；使作伪证
- suborn (v.) "to procure unlawfully, to bribe to accomplish a wicked purpose, especially to induce a witness to perjury, "to lure (someone) to commit a crime," 1530s, from Middle French suborner "seduce, instigate, bribe" (13c.) and directly from Latin subornare "employ as a secret agent, incite secretly," originally "equip, fit out, furnish," from sub "under; secretly" (see sub-) + ornare "equip," related to ordo "row, rank, series, arrangement" (see order (n.)). Related: Suborned; suborning.
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