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bor⋅row

  [bor-oh, bawr-oh]
Use borrowed in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
2. to use, appropriate, or introduce from another source or from a foreign source: to borrow an idea from the opposition; to borrow a word from French.
3. Arithmetic. (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower.
–verb (used without object)
4. to borrow something: Don't borrow unless you intend to repay.
5. Nautical.
a. to sail close to the wind; luff.
b. to sail close to the shore.
6. Golf. to putt on other than a direct line from the lie of the ball to the hole, to compensate for the incline or roll of the green.
—Idiom
7. borrow trouble, to do something that is unnecessary and may cause future harm or inconvenience.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME borowen, OE borgian to borrow, lend, deriv. of borg a pledge; akin to D borg a pledge, borgen to charge, give credit, G Borg credit, borgen to take on credit

Related forms:
bor⋅row⋅a⋅ble, adjective
bor⋅row⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. acquire, take, get; copy, pirate, plagiarize.
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bor·row   (bŏr'ō, bôr'ō)   
v.   bor·rowed, bor·row·ing, bor·rows

v.   tr.
  1. To obtain or receive (something) on loan with the promise or understanding of returning it or its equivalent.
  2. To adopt or use as one's own: I borrowed your good idea.
  3. In subtraction, to take a unit from the next larger denomination in the minuend so as to make a number larger than the number to be subtracted.
  4. Linguistics To adopt (a word) from one language to use in another.
v.   intr.
To obtain or receive something.

[Middle English borwen, from Old English borgian; see bhergh-1 in Indo-European roots.]
bor'row·er n.
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