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Bribed
/bɹaɪbd/
To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
📖 Definitions of "Bribed"
verb
- 1
To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
"She was accused of trying to bribe the jury into making false statements."
- 2
To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.
"to bribe somebody's compliance"
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bribed"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| boughtnoun | (informal, politics) Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt. |
| buyverb | (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods. |
| corruptverb | (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert. |
| corruptedverb | Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved. |
| hadverb | (auxiliary, followed by a past participle) Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past. |
| oiled | Covered in, or supplied with, oil. |
| paid | That is not free of charge; that costs money. |
| procuredverb | (transitive) To acquire or obtain. |
| purchaseverb | To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent. |
| purchasedverb | To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent. |
| tipped | having a tip; or having a tip as specified (used in combination) |
| colludedverb | (intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire |
| extortedverb | (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. |
| connivedverb | (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. |
| blackmailedverb | (transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc. |
| cheatedverb | Having been tricked or deceived. |
| manipulatedverb | (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something |
| conspiredverb | (intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot. |
| hoodwinkedverb | (transitive, figuratively) To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead. |
| liedverb | (music) An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano. |
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