0 to persuade someone, for example by offering them money, to commit an illegal act, especially to tell lies in a court of law:
He may also have suborned perjury by urging another girlfriend to swear falsely that they were not lovers.
The massive drug profits are used to finance operations and suborn officials.
He apparently did try unsuccessfully to induce David's mentor to fire him, but that is a far cry from suborning perjury.
He used his police connections and enormous sums of cash to suborn law enforcement all along the smuggling routes.
It must remain open to the weak uses of representation, or designers will resolutely suborn it to such.
The cost of sustaining such a public good and the temptation to suborn it for personal interests will destroy it.
Lacking that, social pressures against free-riding, corruption, patron-clientage and suborning the state's rules are weak.
People must see institutions as generally reliable and fair mechanisms for protecting their personal integrity and achieving collective goals, or they will ignore, evade or suborn them.
