Antonyms for borrow
ˈbɒr oʊ, ˈbɔr oʊbor·row

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1. borrowverb

   get temporarily

   "May I borrow your lawn mower?"

   Antonyms:
   loan, lend

   Synonyms:
   adopt, take over, take up

2. adopt, borrow, take over, take upverb

   take up and practice as one's own

   Antonyms:
   lend, loan

   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

How to use borrow in a sentence?

1. Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell:

   It is difficult to ask banks to submit rates at which they believe they could borrow on a daily basis if they do not actually borrow very often.

2. Lucinda Williams:

   Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

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. Ambrose Bierce:

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

5. Halil Karaveli:

   The Turkish economy is sort of a bubble. It's living off foreign capital being pumped in, which has made it possible for people to borrow and consume, the savings rate in Turkey is extremely low. You're totally dependent on inflows of foreign capital, which has sustained consumption and it has sustained this construction boom.

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