Crossword Dictionary
plagiarise
plagiarize, plagiarise, lift - v
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
synonyms
crib counterfeit, fake, forge, phony simulate duplicate, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce adulterate, doctor, fudge, juggle, manipulate, tamper (with)
in a sentence
He plagiarized a classmate's report.
She plagiarized from an article she read on the Internet.
Fake sites plagiarize all their content, or have no content at all.
etymology
"the purloining or wrongful appropriation of another's ideas, writing, artistic designs, etc., and giving them forth as one's own," 1620s, from -ism + plagiary (n.) "plagiarist, literary thief" (c. 1600), from Latin plagiarius "kidnapper, seducer, plunderer, one who kidnaps the child or slave of another," used by Martial in the sense of "literary thief," from plagiare "to kidnap," plagium "kidnapping," from plaga "snare, hunting net" (also "open expanse, territory")