PLAGIARIZE

[UK and ANZ] usually -ise [verb] - to use (another person's idea or a part of their work) and pretend that it is your ownThey recently discovered that a woman had plagiarized passages from the book they had written. [T]If you compare the two books side by side, it looks as if the author of the second has plagiarized (from the first). [I]It is claimed the thesis contains plagiarized material.