borrow
/ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/ verb A1- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own. · to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
- To adopt a word from another language.
- In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To lend.
- To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- To feign or counterfeit.
Plural borrow · He/she/it borrows · Past borrowed · Past participle borrowed · -ing form borrowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- borrow
- He/she/it
- borrows
- Past
- borrowed
- Past participle
- borrowed
- -ing form
- borrowing
From the library
He borrowed this from Don Quixote, the only book he had ever read, but which he still slightly remembered.
Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively resolved--nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the contrary, of being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr.
“A mere masque borrowed from our own festivities.
The count never plays, he only drinks pure water tinged with a little sherry, and is so rich that he cannot, without intending to laugh at me, try to borrow money.
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