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- pronunciation:
- pleI
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raIz
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
plagiarizes, plagiarizing, plagiarized |
| definition 1: |
to wrongfully and deliberately claim as one's own (the ideas, words, or the like) of someone else.
The professor recognized several passages in the student's paper and knew that they had been plagiarized.- synonyms:
- crib, lift, steal
- similar words:
- appropriate, borrow, copy, counterfeit, echo, expropriate, forge, pirate, quote, rip off, take
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| definition 2: |
to wrongfully and deliberately claim as one's own the ideas, words, or the like, of (someone else).
- similar words:
- copy, counterfeit, echo, forge, lift, pirate, quote, rip off, steal
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| related words: |
appropriate, copy, quote |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to engage in plagiarism.
- similar words:
- cheat, quote
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| related words: |
counterfeit, quote |
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| derivation: |
plagiarizer (n.) |
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