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. Justin Pritchard:

   We've seen numerous personal loan providers enter the marketplace in recent years, so it's no surprise that those debts are increasing, people can borrow money online at competitive rates.

2. Haida Indian saying:

   We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

3. Chad Corby:

   He was on his front porch, screaming for help, he was tied and bound, covered in blood. He told me somebody came in, asked to borrow some money. He told them he could n’t do it. They did n’t like that answer, proceeded to beat the crap out of him, bound him, threw him in his tub, and caught his house on fire.

4. Liu Ligang:

   But China's case is a bit different, if you look at the last six years, firms have leveraged up quite a lot, previously bank loans were at quite high interest rates. If China can relax monetary policy further, firms could have a great incentive to borrow at a lower rate, and use them to pay off high-yield debt. Merely doing so will alleviate firms' financial burdens and also the risk of default.

5. 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.