bribe

Other forms of bribe

plural

bribes·

past tense

bribed·

present participle

bribing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bribe

What does bribe mean?

bribe means "payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bribe?

bribe has 1 syllable: bribe. In IPA it is /ˈbɹaɪb/.

What is another word for bribe?

Close synonyms include payoff, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bribe a common word?

bribe is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.