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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1. Martin Kaymer:

   Eddie hit his shots to the green, then came over to tell us he had run out of balls, then he walked off. I thought he lost four or five. We are about 80 percentsure it was five, 20 percentfour. He was quick, so it was hard to keep track. He did not ask if he could borrow one from me or George. It did not look like he wanted to play. He did not putt with his putter on the third hole; he putted with a wedge. So there was a lot happening.

2. William Richardson Davie:

   So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.

3. Kim Forrest:

   Investors are understanding that things aren't terrible but things aren't going to materially improve in the short term with the actions taken in China. It takes a long time to borrow money, to come up with plans, to build things.

4. 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.

5. Brian Riedl:

   Students will likely feel liberated to borrow more money on the resumption of future loan forgiveness, and universities will take advantage of the additional borrowing by raising tuition, this is pretty similar to the fact that historically 60% of all student aid increases have been captured with tuition hikes, and this will be treated like an increase in student aid moving forward, which suggests that 60% will be countered by tuition hikes.