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词汇 nobbled
释义 nobbled
past simple and past participle ofnobble
nobble
verb[ T ]
UKslanguk /ˈnɒb.əl/ us /ˈnɑː.əl/

nobbleverb[T] (CAUSE TO FAIL)


to make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs(尤指给赛马服用药物)使不能获胜
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Horse racing
Arab
Arabian
campaign
claimer
claiming race
dark horse
hurdle
jockey
race meeting
racecourse
racetrack
ringer
runners and ridersidiom
sloppy
stable
stakes race
starter
tote board
triple crown
wire

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Failing and doing badly

nobbleverb[T] (PERSUADE)


to persuade someone to do what you want them to do, especially by using money or threats: 说服;(尤指)收买,要挟
The jury who convicted him were suspected of being nobbled.判他有罪的陪审团疑为被人收买。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fraud & corruption
anti-bribery
anti-corruption
anti-counterfeiting
anti-fraud
Augean
bribe
defalcation
defraud
defraud someone/something of something
dolus
embezzle
imposture
insider dealing
launder
malfeasance
malpractice
match-fixing
nobble
pyramid scheme
siphon

nobbleverb[T] (CATCH ATTENTION)


to intentionally catch the attention of someone so that you can talk to them: 故意引起(某人的)注意
He nobbled her in the corridor to sign the invoice.他在走廊上和她套近乎,哄她在付款通知上签字。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Interrupting & preventing from speaking
accost
barge
belt up
blurt something out
break
break someone in
butt in
chime
horn in
interpolation
interrupt
interruption
mike check
nobble
not get a word in edgewaysidiom
put a sock in it!idiom
sock
speak
strike
waylay

Examples of nobbled


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The perpetrator of the original crime may have been acquitted as a result of that now dead witness having been nobbled.
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It has been argued that juries may be nobbled.
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Supposing someone is nobbled and a jury disagrees.
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We will introduce a new offence of witness intimidation, and allow retrials to take place if juries have been nobbled.
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It is interesting that that constituency seems to have been nobbled—certainly the ex-presidents are conspicuously absent in this debate.
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I would not say that they have been nobbled, but we are concerned about the balance between the two views.
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Is there any evidence to show that juries are nobbled or got at in the provinces?
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Those who are nobbled are presumably those who complain to the judge, after which the case is set aside for a new jury.
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Each year, the jury was nobbled—it was discharged twice—although the case was finally concluded.
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Yet again, it is the dental services which are going to be nobbled in this way.
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I believe that the delay in issuing that report is probably a result of its having been nobbled.
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Alas, they seem to have changed their minds, or possibly been nobbled or got at.
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The process of taking soundings requires trust and must not be nobbled—one argument must not be favoured over another.
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I do not believe it is only because individual jurors may be "got at"or"nobbled", although the risk of this is undoubtedly increasing nowadays.
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They are obviously the sort of people who may be nobbled.
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