Bribe: Definition and part of speech

Bribe

  1. n. That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
  2. n. A gift begged; a present.
  3. n. A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.
  4. v. t. To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.
  5. v. i. To commit robbery or theft.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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