PLAGIARIZE

plagiarize, plagiarise, lift

(verb) take without referencing from someone else’s writing or speech; of intellectual property

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

plagiarize (third-person singular simple present plagiarizes, present participle plagiarizing, simple past and past participle plagiarized)

(ambitransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech.

Source: Wiktionary


Pla"gia*rize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plagiarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Plagiarizing.]

Definition: To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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