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Noun: pirate  pIrat
  1. Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
    - plagiarist, plagiarizer, plagiariser [Brit], literary pirate
     
  2. Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
    - buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover
     
  3. A ship that is manned by pirates
    - pirate ship
Verb: pirate  pIrat
  1. Copy illegally; of published material
     
  2. Take arbitrarily or by force
    - commandeer, hijack, highjack

Derived forms: pirated, pirating, pirates

See also: piracy, piratical

Type of: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, ransacker, seize, ship, spoiler, steal, stealer, thief

Encyclopedia: Pirate