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. Dean Baker:

   Costs are out of control. It's absurd people have to borrow large amounts and then struggle to pay it back, that problem is unsolved.

2. 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.

3. Sajid Javid:

   Record low interest rates - you can take advantage of that as a government when you can borrow at negative interest rates for 30 years and put it into economic infrastructure.

4. Michael Slingsby:

   People borrow money from lenders and in order to repay their debts children are being sent out to work.

5. Enrico Dini:

   We are now waiting (for) permission to borrow the printer (from the military), if I had another printer I'd send it there tomorrow, but unfortunately we don't have and must wait.