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A delightful back corner of English: verbs that are almost always used
with only one noun. Can you "suborn" anything other than perjury?
Could you suborn a revolution? A doctor's appointment? A pecan pie?
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it gets even more interesting once you know that in Portuguese the verb "subornar" ('ar' being a common verb termination) means to bribe :-)
Alexandre Oliva at 2019-01-22T20:17:53Z
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» Alexandre Oliva:
“[...] in Portuguese the verb "subornar" [...]”
"Sobornar" in Spanish, an everyday word in politics 😁
JanKusanagi at 2019-01-23T15:40:33Z
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