Suborn

Definition: Suborn

Suborn

Verb

1. Incite to commit a crime.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "suborn" was first used: 1534. (references)

Note: Suborn \Sub*orn"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Suborned; present participle verb or noun Suborning.]. (Websters 1913)

Motive

Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook.

Purchase

Keep in one's pay, bribe, suborn; pay; spend;.

Crosswords: Suborn

Albanian

korruptoj (buy, corrupt, nobble, ready). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حرض (abet, egg on, flesh, foment, incite, instigate, motive, provoke, rouse, set, spark, stir), ‏أغرى (addict, bait, beckon, bring, entice, importune, induce, inveigle, invite, lead on, seduce, tempt, undo), ‏أغراه بأداء شهادة كاذبة, ‏رشا (bribe, buy, corrupt, grease the palm, oil, square, tamper). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подстрекавам (abet, egg on, fanaticize, incite, instigate, key up, needle, provoke, set on, sow, string up, work up), подкупвам (bribe, buy, buy over, corrupt, disarm, fix up, get at, grease, hand out bribes, lubricate). (various references)

Czech

navést. (various references)

Dutch

subornatie (subornation, to bribe a witness, to suborn a witness, to tamper with a witness). (various references)

Finnish

painostaa todistajaa (to bribe a witness, to suborn a witness, to tamper with a witness), lahjoa todistaja (to bribe a witness, to suborn a witness, to tamper with a witness). (various references)

French

suborner. (various references)

German

anstiften (abet, bring about, cause, incite, initiate, instigate, put up to, start, to abet, to instigate, to suborn). (various references)

Greek 

παραπείθω εισ κακόν τι, εξαγοράζω μάρτυρα, δωροδοκώ (bribe, corrupt). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתות (decoy, gull, inveigle, lead on, lure, solicit, tempt), ל�"סית ל�"בר עבר�". (various references)

Hungarian

megveszteget (bribe, gratify, grease, to bribe, to corrupt, to give a sop to cerberus, to grease, to square, to suborn, to tamper with sg), felbujt (abet, to abet, to incite, to instigate, to prompt, to put on, to suborn). (various references)

Indonesian

menyuap (bribe). (various references)

Italian

subornare. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubornsay

Portuguese

subornar (boodle, bribe, buy off, grease, nobble, palm, placate), peitar (nobble, palm). (various references)

Romanian

mitui (bribe, buy, buy over, corrupt, gild, gratify, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil smb.'s palms, palm), corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, debauch, deprave, empoison, infect, pervert, seduce, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate). (various references)

Russian 

подкупать (buy over, corrupt, palm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podmititi (bribe, get to, pay off, tamper), navesti na krivokletstvo. (various references)

Spanish

sobornar (bribe, buy, buy over, get at, grease the palm, nobble, palm, Square, sweeten, touch). (various references)

Swedish

tubba till mened, tubba (inveigle). (various references)

Turkish

yalancı şahitlik yaptırmak, yalan ifade verdirmek, rüşvetle kandırmak (tamper, tamper with), aklını çelmek (allure, beguile, bias, cozen, dissuade, draw in, entice away, infatuate, persuade, prepossess, sway). (various references)

Ukrainian

підкуповувати (buy, corrupt), підбурювати до вчинення злочину. (various references)

corrumpam, corrumpantur, corrumpas, corrumpet, corrumpetur, corrumpit, corrumpitur, corrumpunt, corruperat, corruperunt, corrupimus, corrupit, corrupta, corruptae, corruptam, corruptaque, corrupti, corrupto, corruptorum, corruptum, corruptus, subornare, suborno. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "suborn": subornation, subornations, suborned, suborner, suborners, suborning, suborns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Suborn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aubron, Isiboro, sabon, sabor, S'been, sbodn, Sebbon, Sebon, Seyburn, Shuvorn, Sigbjorn, silburn, sobor, sobourn, solorn, stuboorn, stuborn, stuburn, sturborn, subborn, Subin, Subirana, subjorn, subo, Subono, subord, suborne, subourn, suburan, surborn, Sybron, Zurbaran. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bourns.

-1 letter: bonus, bosun, bourn, burns.

-2 letters: born, bros, buns, burn, burs, nobs, nous, nubs, onus, orbs, ours, robs, rubs, runs, snob, snub, sorb, sorn, sour, urbs, urns.

-3 letters: bos, bro, bun, bur, bus, nob, nor, nos, nub, nus, ons, orb, ors, our, rob, rub, run, sob, son, sou, sub, sun, uns, urb, urn.

-4 letters: bo.

+1 letter: bournes, burnous, burtons, suborns, unrobes, unsober.

+2 letters: baudrons, bouncers, bounders, bourbons, bourdons, bronchus, burgeons, burnoose, burnouts, burstone, osnaburg, outburns, postburn, rebounds, rubdowns, stubborn, suborned, suborner.

+3 letters: bourgeons, brownouts, buhrstone, bullhorns, burgonets, burnoosed, burnooses, burnouses, burrstone, burstones, buttoners, curbstone, downburst, obscurant, obscuring, obtrusion, osnaburgs, overburns, rebuttons, runabouts, snowbrush, submicron, subnormal, suborners, suborning, subregion, tenebrous, thornbush, turbofans, underboss.