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pirate

noun

1 pirate

Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own.

synonyms: literary pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist, plagiarizer.

Roget 19: imitation; copying etc. v.; transcription; repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; ... show more

Dutch: letterdief, plagiaris, plagiator
Polish: plagiator

2 pirate

Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation.

synonyms: buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover.

Roget 792: thief, robber, homo triumliterarum [Lat.], pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist.    spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark [Slang], ... show more

Dutch: boekanier, kaper, piraat, vrijbuiter, zeerover
Polish: rozbójnik morski, pirat

3 pirate

A ship that is manned by pirates.

synonym: pirate ship.

Polish: okręt piracki, statek piracki

verb

1 pirate

Copy illegally; of published material.

Roget 773: fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside, ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to.    infringe, transgress, violate, ... show more

Roget 791: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; ... show more

2 pirate

Take arbitrarily or by force.

synonyms: commandeer, highjack, hijack.

Dutch: opvorderen


Moby thesaurus: AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, adopt, air pirate, airplane hijacker, appropriate ... show more.

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