Plagiarize

  • 11plagiarize — Synonyms and related words: act like, adopt, affect, appropriate, assume, borrow, chorus, come again, copy, counterfeit, crib, derive from, ditto, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, double, duplicate, echo, fake, forge, go like, hoke,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 12plagiarize — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. pirate, infringe on, copy, transcribe, pick one s brains, crib (inf.), lift (inf.); imitate, simulate, ape; forge, counterfeit. See stealing. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. forge, paraphrase, appropriate …

    English dictionary for students

  • 13plagiarize — pla|gia|rize also plagiarise BrE [ˈpleıdʒəraız] v [I and T] to take words or ideas from another person s work and use them in your work, without stating that they are not your own ▪ He accused other scientists of plagiarizing his research …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 14plagiarize — pla|gia|rize [ pleıdʒə,raız ] verb intransitive or transitive to take someone else s work, ideas, or words, and use them as if they were your own …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 15plagiarize — [17] Latin plagium meant ‘kidnapping’ – it was a derivative of plaga ‘net’. From it was formed plagārius ‘kidnapper’, which was used metaphorically by the epigrammatist Martial for ‘literary thief’ – the sense in which the word reached English …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 16plagiarize — [[t]ple͟ɪʤəraɪz[/t]] plagiarizes, plagiarizing, plagiarized VERB If someone plagiarizes another person s idea or work, they use it or copy it and pretend that they thought of it or created it. [V n] He has pointed out that moderates are… …

    English dictionary

  • 17plagiarize — or plagiarise pleɪdʒərʌɪz verb take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one s own. Derivatives plagiarism noun plagiarist noun plagiaristic adjective plagiarizer noun Origin C18 (earlier (C17) as plagiarism): fr …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 18plagiarize — also ise BrE verb (I, T) to take words, ideas etc from someone else s work and use them in your work, as if they were your own ideas: Half the ideas in his talk were plagiarized from an article I wrote last year …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19plagiarize — verb he was fined for plagiarizing a song Syn: copy, infringe the copyright of, pirate, steal, poach, appropriate; informal rip off, crib, borrow , pinch …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 20plagiarize — v (all chiefly in reference to literary material) pirate, thieve, rob, steal, pilfer, purloin, Inf. crib, Inf. lift, Inf. rip off, Euph. borrow; appropriate, assume, arrogate, usurp, make use of, help oneself to, pass off as one s own; forge,… …

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