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Plagiarize

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liftverb(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
plagiariseverbNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of plagiarize. [(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.]

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plagiariseverbNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of plagiarize. [(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.]
liftverb(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
copyverb(transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
cribverb(transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
stealverb(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
sottocopyverb(Philippines, neologism) to plagiarize
steal someone's thunderverb(idiomatic) To appropriate someone's ideas or information, typically in order to look better at that person's expense.
purloinverb(transitive, usually formal or humorous) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
pass off asverb(transitive) To misrepresent something as.
copycatnoun(informal, derogatory) One who imitates or plagiarizes others' work.
misappropriateverb(transitive) To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.
piratenoun(crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
steal someone's identityverbTo assume another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime; to commit identity theft.
bootlegnounAn illegally produced, transported, or sold product.
blagnounAn attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile or persuasion; a trick.
scamnounA fraudulent deal.
shamnounA fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
misattributeverbTo erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
misparaphraseverbTo paraphrase incorrectly.
dublicateverbMisspelling of duplicate. [(transitive) To make a copy of.]

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