<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li><p>(used with object)</p><ul><li>to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.</li><li>to use, appropriate, or introduce from another source or from a foreign source: to borrow an idea from the opposition; to borrow a word from French.</li><li>Synonyms: plagiarize, pirate, copy, get, take, acquire</li><li>Arithmetic: (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower.</li></ul></li><li><p>(used without object)</p><ul><li>to borrow something: Don't borrow unless you intend to repay.</li><li>Nautical: to sail close to the wind; luff.</li><li>to sail close to the shore.</li><li>Golf: to putt on other than a direct line from the lie of the ball to the hole, to compensate for the incline or roll of the green.</li></ul></li></ul>