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lift

verb (STEAL)
 
 
/lɪft/

Definition

[T] informal to steal somethingStealing [T] informal to use someone else's writing, music, or idea, pretending that it is your own: He'd lifted whole passages from a website.Faking and pretendingCopying and copiesForgery
(Definition of lift verb (STEAL) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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