Borrow and Fake

Borrow

Borrow verb - To take for one's own use (something originated by another).

Fake and borrow are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fake" instead a verb "Borrow".

Nearby Words: borrowing, borrower

Fake

Fake verb - To imitate or copy especially in order to deceive.

Borrow and fake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Borrow" instead a verb "Fake".

Nearby Words: faked, faking, faker

Common collocations

number borrow number fake number
time borrow time fake time
powers borrow powers fake powers

Both words in one sentence

  • When her publisher invites himself and a war veteran over for Christmas, Stanwyck's character has to borrow someone else's farm and a different someone else's baby and fake a domestic paradise.
  • Vimes remarked that he wanted to tell Doreen that she can use Ws, honestly - just borrow them from the guy who overemphasis his Ws (a real vampire trying too hard not to look like one), and added that her fake fangs rattle when she talks.
    Source: Vampire Vords
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