plagiarize. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

plagiarize

SYLLABICATION:	pla·gia·rize
PRONUNCIATION:	plj-rz
VERB:	Inflected forms: pla·gia·rized, pla·gia·riz·ing, pla·gia·riz·es
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own. 2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another).
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	To put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of another.
OTHER FORMS:	plagia·rizer —NOUN


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