Definition of Borrowed

1. Verb. (past of borrow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Borrowed

1. borrow [v] - See also: borrow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Borrowed

boroughwide
borovskite
borra
borrasca
borrel
borrelia
borrelia burgdorferi
borrelia infections
borrelias
borreliosis
borrell
borrow
borrow pit
borrowable
borrowe
borrowed (current term)
borrowed time
borrower
borrower's card
borrowers
borrowest
borroweth
borrowing
borrowing cost
borrowings
borrows
bors
borsch
borsches
borscht

Literary usage of Borrowed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"... when he should attain the age of twenty^ve, it was clear, upon the whole nothing but the payment was postponed. borrowed from " ^x his ver^s, ..."

2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"Near the end of March, 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"At the same time, the evidence appears to show that the sums so borrowed were applied directly to pay the expenses of the receivership, repairs, supplies, ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"This Du.jenever is, however, merely borrowed from F., so that it comes to much the same thing. Cf. ' Theriaque des Alemán?, ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... with point and feeling, but borrowed the first couplet from Crashaw. 1'oes to the tribe from which they trace their clan, As monkeys draw their pedigree ..."

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