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Definition borrow

Etymology 1

From Middle English borwen, bor?ien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-Germanic *burg?n? (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erg?- (“to take care”). Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.

Verb

borrow (third-person singular simple present borrows, present participle borrowing, simple past and past participle borrowed)

  1. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
  2. To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
  3. To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
  4. (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
  5. (arithmetic) 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 result.
  6. (Upper Midwestern United States, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
  7. (double transitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
  8. To feign or counterfeit.
  9. (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
Noun

borrow (plural borrows)

  1. (golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
  2. (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
  3. (programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.

Etymology 2

From Middle English borwe, borgh, from Old English borh, borg, from Proto-Germanic *burg?n? (“to borrow, lend”) (related to Etymology 1, above).

Noun

borrow (plural borrows)

  1. (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
  2. (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

Results 40 Words with the letters BORROW

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13 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
OVERBORROWING 26
12 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
OVERBORROWED 23
OVERBROWSING 25
POWERBROKERS 25
SNOWBOARDERS 20
11 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BROADSWORDS 19
BROWNNOSERS 19
MARROWBONES 21
OVERBORROWS 21
OVERBROWSED 22
OVERBROWSES 21
POWERBROKER 24
SNOWBOARDER 19
10 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BORROWINGS 19
BROADSWORD 18
BROWNNOSER 18
MARROWBONE 20
OVERBORROW 20
OVERBROWSE 20
9 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BORROWERS 15
BORROWING 18
8 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BORROWED 15
BORROWER 14
7 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BORROWS 13
6 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BORROW 12
4 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BOOR 7
BROO 7
BROW 10
3 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BOO 6
BOW 9
BRO 6
BRR 6
ORB 6
ROB 6
ROW 6
WOO 6
2 letter words with the letters BORROW ↑
BO 5
OR 2
OW 5
WO 5

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