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borrowed

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɒɹəʊd//
  • United States//ˈbɑɹoʊd//
  • Canada//ˈbɔɹoʊd//
  • //ˈbɒɹəd//

Having been borrowed.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been borrowed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of borrowsimple past and past participle of borrow

    The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me in borrowed robes?

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).