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All borrow synonyms

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verb borrow

  • appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
  • hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
  • acquire — If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
  • obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
  • rent — an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure.
  • use — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • adopt — If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
  • assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
  • copy — If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
  • steal — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
  • tap — Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol
  • pledge — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
  • soak — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
  • pawn — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
  • bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
  • chisel — A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone.
  • beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
  • scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
  • negotiate — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
  • sponge — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
  • lift — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
  • bum — Someone's bum is the part of their body which they sit on.
  • touch — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
  • cadge — If someone cadges food, money, or help from you, they ask you for it and succeed in getting it.
  • mooch — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
  • pilfer — steal in small amounts
  • plagiarize — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • usurp — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
  • imitate — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
  • filch — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
  • take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
  • pirate — software pirate
  • hit up — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
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