Borrow and Lend

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Borrow

Borrow verb - Get temporarily.
Usage example: May I borrow your lawn mower?
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Lend is an antonym for borrow in topics: take on loan, appropriate, take for temporary use.
Nearby Words: borrowing, borrower

Lend

Lend verb - To give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned.
Usage example: can you lend me five dollars?
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Borrow is an antonym for lend in loan topic.
Nearby Words: Lent, lending, lender
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Common collocations

energy borrow energy lend energy
power borrow power lend power
strength borrow strength lend strength
name borrow name lend name
Other words: clothes, equipment, time, copy, money, bit, vehicle, dog, car, sword, jacket, handkerchief, skills, powers, weapons.

Both words in one sentence

  • Theatre / The Merchant of Venice He needs to borrow money, so he approaches his old friend Antonio, the eponymous merchant, who's often bailed him out in the past.Antonio's wares are out at sea, and he has no money on hand, but he's willing to lend Bassanio anything he can get.
    Source: Theatre / The Merchant of Venice
  • Parodied in How I Met Your Mother, where Marshall's father suggests he borrow an umbrella from the Koreans down the hall, since Koreans are apparently all wise enough to be prepared for any situation and compassionate enough to lend their things out to neighbors.
    Source: Positive Discrimination
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