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Suborn

To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

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Broader term 18

Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Corrupt 76% connected

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Debase 76% connected

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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Debauch 76% connected

To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…

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Demoralize 76% connected

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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Deprave 76% connected

To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Misdirect 76% connected

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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Pervert 76% connected

To turnanother way; to divert.

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Procure 76% connected

To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get;…

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Profane 76% connected

Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Secure 76% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Subvert 76% connected

To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

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Vitiate 76% connected

To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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Subornation 74% connected

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

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Subornation 74% connected

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

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Suborner 74% connected

One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

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Suborner 74% connected

One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

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Causes 1

Perjure 72% connected

To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often…

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