borrowed Definition

borrow
verb borrowed, borrowing

1. To take something temporarily, usually with permission and with the intention of returning it.

Thesaurus: bum (slang), beg, sponge (slang), mooch (slang); hire, rent, cadge, hit up for (US slang); Antonym: lend, return.
intr
2. To get money in this way, from a bank, etc.
3. To take, adopt or copy (words or ideas, etc) from another language or person, etc.

Example: images borrowed from traditional Russian folklore
Thesaurus: adopt, appropriate, assume, copy, imitate, pirate, plagiarize, usurp.
intr
4. golf.
To make allowance for slope or wind, especially by putting the ball uphill of the hole.

Derivative: borrower
noun

Derivative: borrowing
noun

Something borrowed, especially a word taken from one language into another.

Idiom: borrow trouble

(S)
colloq
To take a particular course of action that brings oneself extra problems that would otherwise have been avoided. Brit equivalent ask for trouble.

Idiom: live on borrowed time

See under live¹.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon borgian, from borg a pledge or security.