plagiarize

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: pla=gia=rize

CIDE DICTIONARY

plagiarize, v. t. 

 To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

plagiarize, v.tr. (also -ise) (also absol.)
1 take and use (the thoughts, writings, inventions, etc. of another person) as one's own.
2 pass off the thoughts etc. of (another person) as one's own.

Derivative

plagiarizer n.

Etymology

L plagiarius kidnapper f. plagium a kidnapping f. Gk plagion

DEVIL DICTIONARY

plagiarize

v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

THESAURUS

plagiarize

act like, adopt, affect, appropriate, assume, borrow, chorus, come again, copy, counterfeit, crib, derive from, ditto, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, double, duplicate, echo, fake, forge, go like, hoke, hoke up, imitate, infringe, infringe a copyright, make like, make use of, mirror, mock, parrot, pirate, quote, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reflect, regurgitate, reincarnate, renew, repeat, reproduce, revive, say again, simulate, steal, take, take on, take over

ROGET THESAURUS

plagiarize

Stealing

VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.