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Verb: borrow  bor-ow or bór-ow [N. Amer], bó-row [Brit]
  1. Get temporarily
    "May I borrow your lawn mower?"
     
  2. Take up and practice as one's own
    - adopt, take over, take up

Derived forms: borrows, borrowing, borrowed

Type of: accept, acquire, get, have, take

Antonym: lend

Encyclopedia: Borrow, George

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