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plagiarize

/ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹaɪz/

plagiarize verb: 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.

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.
    • It’s unethical to plagiarize someone else’s work for personal gain.
    Synonyms:
    cog, crib, knock off, lift, rip off

plagiarize meaning in Malayalam, Gujarati and Arabic

plagiarize in Malayalam

pirate, copy, infringe the copyright of
സാഹിത്യചോരണം ചെയ്യുക, അതേപോലെ പകർത്തുക, മറ്റൊരാളുടെ ആശയം പകർത്തുക, ആശയം മോഷ്ടിക്കുക, ഗ്രന്ഥതസ്കരത്വം പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, പകർപ്പവകാശനിയമം ലംഘിക്കുക

plagiarize in Gujarati

use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech
સાહિત્યચોરવું sāhityacorvũ

plagiarize in Arabic

use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech
اِنْتَحَلَ intaḥala

Synonyms of plagiarize

All synonyms of plagiarize

Forms of plagiarize

third-person singular presentplagiarizes
present participleplagiarizing
past participleplagiarized
pastplagiarized
alternative formplagiarise

Past tense of plagiarize: plagiarized

Origin of plagiarize

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

Words formed from plagiarize

Questions about plagiarize

What does plagiarize mean?
Plagiarize means 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.
What is plagiarize in Malayalam?
Plagiarize in Malayalam is സാഹിത്യചോരണം ചെയ്യുക, അതേപോലെ പകർത്തുക, മറ്റൊരാളുടെ ആശയം പകർത്തുക. See Plagiarize meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is plagiarize?
Plagiarize is a verb.
How do you pronounce plagiarize?
Plagiarize is pronounced /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹaɪz/.
What is the past tense of plagiarize?
The past tense of plagiarize is plagiarized.

Words near plagiarize in the dictionary

  1. plagiaristically
  2. plagiarists
  3. plagiarizable
  4. plagiarization
  5. plagiarizations
  6. plagiarize
  7. plagiarized
  8. plagiarizer
  9. plagiarizers
  10. plagiarizes
  11. plagiarizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plagiarize (page history and authors); plagiarize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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