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plagiarized

plagiarized is the simple past and past participle 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

Adjective

plagiarized (comparative more plagiarized, superlative most plagiarized)

  1. produced using plagiarism

Forms of plagiarized

comparativemore plagiarized
superlativemost plagiarized

Words formed from plagiarized

Questions about plagiarized

What does plagiarized mean?
Plagiarized means produced using plagiarism.
What is plagiarized the simple past and past participle of?
Plagiarized is the simple past and past participle of plagiarize.
What part of speech is plagiarized?
Plagiarized is an adjective.

Words near plagiarized in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plagiarized (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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