Crossword clues for borrowed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Borrow \Bor"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Borrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Borrowing.] [OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh, pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS. beorgan to protect. ?95. See 1st Borough.]
To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.
(Arith.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
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To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
Rites borrowed from the ancients.
--Macaulay.It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
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To feign or counterfeit. ``Borrowed hair.''
--Spenser.The borrowed majesty of England.
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To receive; to take; to derive.
Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother.
--Shak.To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.
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vb. (en-past of: borrow)
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Usage examples of "borrowed".
Adammoving awkwardly at first on his new crutches, but more surely after he borrowed tips on technique from Henry Populous, an amputee of fifty years standingmade his way half a dozen blocks before he came to a small park.
Thence on the fifth day after landing, and without waiting for the night, because not safe to linger, he set out alone on a borrowed horse, to make for the uplands and the Ridge of the Anguille, where his journey was to end.
But what if this so-called antipathy were only a fear, a terror, which borrowed the less unmanly name?
Instead of carrying pails as was their wont, these milkmaids, who were all very neatly attired, bore on their heads a pile of silver plate, borrowed for the occasion, arranged like a pyramid, and adorned with ribands and flowers.
This circumstance occasioned me much internal emotion, though there could be no doubt that the Barnard whom I had such cause to execrate had only borrowed from this minion the disguise of his name.
I have also never said that he neglected the reading of his breviary, because that would be contrary to the truth, seeing that on several occasions he borrowed mine and read his hours in it.
Mexican moon had climbed into the night sky, the Extinguisher abandoned his borrowed vehicle and took to the jungle.
High Temple to confer with the logothete of the treasury on the best way to make sure we have an exact record of how much gold and silver is borrowed from each shrine we control.
She wrote them down in her neat handwriting with a pen borrowed from Dr Van Minn en, on a leaf torn from his pocket-book.
I talked with Shoe again today and he was able to confirm that Paco had borrowed a quantity of cash from Morelli about a month ago, before you came to town.
When I was sixteen, Uncle Parand borrowed me from Mother to accompany him on coastal trading voyages.
The great philologist and grammarian, Al-Jahiz, said of the book of Sibawaih, that none like it had ever been written on grammar, and that all writers on this subject who had succeeded him had borrowed from it.
Garner knew that several facilities around the world had been established to catalog and archive phytoplankton species in fact, he liberally borrowed from many of them in identifying his own samples.
If instruction was desired upon any sphere of human knowledge or energy, the bard produced it in a prosodical shape, combining with the dignity of form the aid which the memory borrowed from a pattern or a song.
The conical white radome then disappeared, replaced by a heavy-action turret borrowed from the Abrams tank and a turret targeting system borrowed from the Hummer-25.