borrow
/ˈbɒɹəʊ/
To receive 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 as one's own; To adopt a word from another language
- he/she/it
- borrows
- past
- borrowed
- past participle
- borrowed
Meanings
- 1
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it
Could I borrow your ruler?
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Can I borrow your car?
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- 2
To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time
- 3
To adopt (an idea) as one's own
- 4
To adopt a word from another language
- 5
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 resultrare
- 6
To lendrare
- 7
To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone)rare
- 8
To feign or counterfeitrare
- 9
To secure the release of (someone) from prisonrare
- 10
To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning itrare