Synonyms for plagiarize
- verb
Most common
Definitions
- v. 1
To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.
She was caught trying to plagiarize an article for her thesis.
Related words
- Other spellings
- plagiarise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- plagiarized
e.g. plagiarized → lifted, quoted, cribbed, pirated…
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To plagiarize is to quote without credit, appropriating another's words or thought as one's own.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- steal I didn't steal it. I just borrowed it permanently.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| plagiarize | rising | |
| steal | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- cog1
- 4 letters
- lift1, crib1
- 5 letters
- quote1, steal1
- 6 letters
- pirate2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pirate2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- plagier
- Italiano
- plagiare
- Español
- plagiar
- Deutsch
- plagiieren
- Català
- plagiar