verb
- past tense of plagiarise; copied someone else’s work or ideas and presented them as one’s own without proper attribution
Usage: British spelling
Examples
- The student plagiarised entire paragraphs from online sources.
- She was expelled after it was discovered she had plagiarised her thesis.
- The author plagiarised several passages from earlier works.
- He plagiarised the research without giving proper credit to the original scientists.
- The journalist was fired for having plagiarised articles from other publications.
- They plagiarised the design and sold it as their own creation.