Synonyms for borrow
ˈbɒr oʊ, ˈbɔr oʊbor·row

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 15 votes

1. borrowverb

   get temporarily

   "May I borrow your lawn mower?"

   Synonyms:
   adopt, take over, take up

   Antonyms:
   loan, lend

2. adopt, borrow, take over, take upverb

   take up and practice as one's own

   Synonyms:
   usurp, take in, suck up, seize on, resume, buy up, espouse, acquire, hook on, imbibe, suck in, lift out, sweep up, take, sorb, adopt, strike, assume, relieve, take over, scoop up, repeat, scoop, buy out, embrace, fasten on, arrogate, soak up, sop up, suck, follow, seize, start, dramatise, latch on, draw, accept, take on, absorb, dramatize, take up, scoop out, bear

   Antonyms:
   lend, loan

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. borrowverb

   Synonyms:
   ask the loan of, take or receive as a loan

2. borrowverb

   Synonyms:
   take, appropriate, adopt, make use of

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1. List of paraphrases for "borrow":

   borrowing, lend, loan

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How to use borrow in a sentence?

1. James Hahn:

   I'm sitting there in my room, i've got to borrow money to pay for my caddie fee. It was a little embarrassing. I was going to borrow money from my parents to get a flight home. And I'm sitting there on the computer going on Craigslist and I start looking for jobs. It kind of hit me like,' Hey, you have an opportunity to do something with your life.' And I was just wasting it, hanging out with friends, partying on the weekends. I wasn't putting in the time.

2. G. C. Lichtenberg:

   To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.

3. Patrick J. Buchanan:

   We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.

4. Michael Heise:

   It has never been cheaper for countries such as France to borrow. Buying state bonds could influence the price of state bonds, but wouldn't have much impact on the economy.

5. Ambrose Bierce:

   Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.