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 if she had suborned some weaker member of the Clan on the Sacred Mount, that would be a different matter.
From The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
"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
To him then, without delay, I dispatched my Moorish friend I had suborned, praying the mariner to hasten to my assistance.
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
That very day I had suborned the Captain Paulus who, since I drew him through the gates, was my will's slave.
From Cleopatra by Henry Rider Haggard
