Word Meanings - OUTBRIBE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To surpass in bribing.

SURPASS
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
SURPASSING
Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
BRIBER
1. A thief. Lydgate. 2. One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices. 3. That which bribes; a bribe. His service . . . were a sufficient briber for his life. Shak.
BRIBE
, LL. briba scrap of bread; cf. OF. briber, brifer, to eat gluttonously, to beg, and OHG. bilibi 1. A gift begged; a present. Chaucer. 2. A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the
SURPASSABLE
That may be surpassed.
BRIBERY
1. Robbery; extortion. 2. The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting.
BRIBELESS
Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes. From thence to heaven's bribeless hall. Sir W. Raleigh.
BRIBABLE
Capable of being bribed. A more bribable class of electors. S. Edwards.
OUTBRIBE
To surpass in bribing.