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borrow

verb

1 borrow

Get temporarily.

Roget 806: be in debt etc. adj.; owe; incur a debt, contract a debt etc. n.; run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow etc. ... show more

Dutch: eentjebuur spelen, lenen

2 borrow

Take up and practice as one's own.

synonyms: adopt, take over, take up.

Roget 788: borrow, desume.    hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year &c.; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year ... show more

Dutch: ontlenen, lenen, aannemen, overnemen


Moby thesaurus: abstract, act like, adopt, affect, and, annex, appropriate, assume, bag, boost, bum, cadge, chorus, cop, copy, counterfeit, crib, defraud, discount, discount notes ... show more.

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