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plagiarise

plagiarise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of plagiarize.

Meaning of plagiarize

Verb

plagiarize (third-person singular simple present plagiarizes, present participle plagiarizing, simple past and past participle plagiarized)

  1. (ambitransitive) 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.
    Synonyms:
    cog, crib, knock off, lift, rip off

Forms of plagiarise

third-person singular presentplagiarises
present participleplagiarising
past participleplagiarised
pastplagiarised

Origin of plagiarise

From plagiary + -ise, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”).

Words formed from plagiarise

Questions about plagiarise

What is plagiarise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Plagiarise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of plagiarize.

Words near plagiarise in the dictionary

  1. plagiarhythm
  2. plagiarhythms
  3. plagiaries
  4. plagiarisation
  5. plagiarisations
  6. plagiarise
  7. plagiarised
  8. plagiariser
  9. plagiarisers
  10. plagiarises
  11. plagiarising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plagiarise (page history and authors); plagiarize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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