0 to make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs -- (尤指给赛马服用药物)使不能获胜
1 to persuade someone to do what you want them to do, especially by using money or threats -- 说服;(尤指)收买,要挟
2 to intentionally catch the attention of someone so that you can talk to them -- 故意引起(某人的)注意
I hope that all the transport workers will nobble them.
It seems to me that porters nobble all the trolleys and the passengers are left in a great deal of difficulty finding any trolleys themselves.
There is a big difference between the death of a witness and the death of the person who has nobbled a witness.
The result was that there was no jury nobbling, no chance to nobble them at all.
It is one of the few newspapers which he has not managed to nobble.
This is worse than trying to nobble the jury; it is really leaning on the judge.
On the face of it, abolition of the right to peremptory challenge would make it more likely that people would attempt to nobble juries.
Let it be hoped that the recent spate of attempts to nobble juries is a temporary matter.