pla´gia|riz´er

pla´gia|riz´er
pla|gia|rize «PLAY juh ryz», verb, -rized, -riz|ing.
–v.t.
to take and use as one's own (the thoughts, writings, or inventions of another), especially, to take and use (a passage, plot, or the like) from the work of another writer: »

I could not help plagiarizing Miss Hannah More's first line (Harriet Beecher Stowe).

–v.i.
to take ideas, passages, or the like, and represent them as one's own: »

He even had doubts whether in "The Silent Places,' he had been plagiarizing, more or less unconsciously, from Henry James's "Great Good Place' (H. G. Wells).

pla´gia|riz´er, noun.

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