suborn
verb (used with object)
to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime
had suborned
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past perfectof suborn.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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This was in response to charges that the CIA had suborned an officer in Germany’s intelligence service.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 12, 2014
But on the morrow came two evil men into the hall whom he had suborned, and bore false witness that I was a thrall and a runaway.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd, As if she had suborned some to swear False allegations to o'erthrow his state?
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
One Étienne Barthélemy was next arrested: he admitted that he had ‘financed’ Mirabel during the trial, but denied that he had suborned any witnesses.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang
"A plain statement of all he had suborned me to do for him, and what he had given me for doing it," said Raffles, as he lit a Sullivan from his last easeful.
From Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
