One usage verbs.

[nq:1]"Suborn" perjury. Can you suborn anything else?[/nq]
A person?
[nq:1]"Utter" a worthless check. I know you can utter a word.[/nq]
So how is it a one-use verb?
[nq:1]But "utter" in the sense of issue or write seems to be only used for checks.[/nq]
Can be used for any document.
Adrian

[nq:1]"Suborn" perjury. Can you suborn anything else? "Utter" a worthless check. I know you can utter a word. But "utter" in the sense of issue or write seems to be only used for checks.[/nq]
"Uttering a forged instrument" used to be standard legalese in England, but the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 replace it with "using". It is probably still alive in other jurisdications.

Do

[nq:1]"Suborn" perjury. Can you suborn anything else?[/nq]
Googling, you seem to be able to suborn "false testimony", "false witnesses", "false evidence", "false accusations",

From John Foxe's sixteenth-century Book of Martyrs

When the council had assembled in the morning, the Jews mocked Jesus, and the elders suborned false witnesses against him : the principal accusation b

[nq:2]"Suborn" perjury. Can you suborn anything else?[/nq]
[nq:1]Googling, you seem to be able to suborn "false testimony", "false witnesses", "false evidence", "false accusations", From John Foxe's sixteenth-century ... system", "the clinician's true professional judgment"(sic), "other states", "those whom we trust with our secrets", and "the United Kingdom's constitution".[/nq]
There's a

[nq:2]"Suborn" perjury. Can you suborn anything else?[/nq]
[nq:1]A person?[/nq]
Indeed. I've never come across "suborn perjury". Suborn a witness, yes.

Moreover, it is commonly used to mean 'express': a word, a sentence, a thought, a curse. In fact, it's little more than a synonym for "say".
Rob Bannister

oh, I thought of one.
"put" as in putting the shot.

[nq:1]"Suborn" perjury. Can you suborn anything else? "Utter" a worthless check. I know you can utter a word. But "utter" ... know that there are other verbs that are used in only one situation but I can't think of them now.[/nq]
If you mean verbs that take only one thing as a direct object, I read that "shrug" is such a verb. But my son claims that you can shrug your eyebrows.

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[nq:2]A person?[/nq]
[nq:1]Indeed. I've never come across "suborn perjury". Suborn a witness, yes.[/nq]
One can suborn a witness, but I've heard the phrase "suborn perjury" numerous times.

Mike Bandy

[nq:1]"Suborn" perjury. Can you suborn anything else? "Utter" a worthless check. I know you can utter a word. But "utter" ... know that there are other verbs that are used in only one situation but I can't think of them now.[/nq]
One can whet a knife, but when I've heard "whet" as a verb, it's normally followed by "appetite."

Mike Bandy

[nq:1]If you mean verbs that take only one thing as a direct object, I read that "shrug" is such a verb. But my son claims that you can shrug your eyebrows.[/nq]
When we discussed this back in 2000, I noted that Tarzan "shrugged his head ruefully" in Tarzan the Untamed . I also noted that

There is a large class of words that have identical noun and intransitive verb forms in which the