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plagiarizing

plagiarizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

plagiarizing (countable and uncountable, plural plagiarizings)

  1. Synonym of plagiarism.
    Synonyms:
    plagiarism

Synonyms of plagiarizing

Forms of plagiarizing

pluralplagiarizings

Questions about plagiarizing

What does plagiarizing mean?
Plagiarizing means synonym of plagiarism.
What is plagiarizing the present participle and gerund of?
Plagiarizing is the present participle and gerund of plagiarize.
What part of speech is plagiarizing?
Plagiarizing is a noun.
What is the plural of plagiarizing?
The plural of plagiarizing is plagiarizings.

Words near plagiarizing in the dictionary

  1. plagiarize
  2. plagiarized
  3. plagiarizer
  4. plagiarizers
  5. plagiarizes
  6. plagiarizing
  7. plagiarizings
  8. plagiary
  9. plagiator
  10. plagiators
  11. plagiaulacid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plagiarizing (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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