suborn
verb (used with object)
to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime
suborning
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present participleof suborn.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The newly elected disrict attorney said his office's stance on the case could change if the brothers "completely accept responsibility for their lies of self-defense and the attempted suborning of perjury they engaged in".
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025
And: “Congress can permissibly criminalize certain obstructive conduct by the President, such as suborning perjury, intimidating witnesses, or fabricating evidence.”
From Slate ● May 29, 2019
He said he was given a limited grant of immunity before he testified about the “cover story” for the Twitter message because otherwise he might have been charged with suborning perjury.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2018
Similarly, if Richard Nixon had not been worried about the truth, he would not have been suborning perjury.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2018
Continually scheming against the objects of their avarice and hatred, preparing poisons or suborning bravoes, they know that these same arts will be employed against them.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
