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Borrow   /bˈɑrˌoʊ/   Listen
Borrow

verb
(past & past part. borrowed; pres. part. borrowing)
1.
Get temporarily.  Antonym: lend.
2.
Take up and practice as one's own.  Synonyms: adopt, take over, take up.



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... century, a life so different from that of his own youth and early manhood, was strangely keen and insistent. Sometimes in talking of his great contemporaries, Tennyson, Meredith, Swinburne, Rossetti, Morris, Matthew Arnold, Borrow, there would creep into his voice a note of reminiscent sadness; but it always seemed poetic rather than personal. It may be said that he never really grew up, that his spirit never tired. His laugh was as youthful as the hearty “My dear fellow,” ...
— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... not tell them—that is none except my true friends. If I did, they would hover round me and want to borrow money, or get me to take them out West with me. So I have hit upon a plan. I shall want to use money, but I will pretend ...
— Cast Upon the Breakers • Horatio Alger

... considerations of conventional morality. If he considers that champagne would be good for a poor patient he ought to recommend him to take champagne; he is not called upon to consider whether the patient will beg, borrow, or steal the champagne. But, after all, even if that be admitted, it must still be said that the physician knows that the champagne, however obtained, is not likely to be poisonous. When, however, he ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... the statement in Strype, which I borrow from Dr. Zouch's second edition of Walton's ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 24. Saturday, April 13. 1850 • Various

... be, it was the Primate's part to speak for the conquered race the words it could no longer utter. He was in fact the permanent leader (to borrow a modern phrase) of a Constitutional Opposition; and in addition to the older religious forces which he wielded he wielded a popular and democratic force which held the new King and the new baronage in check. It was he who received from the sovereign ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green


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