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# plagiarised

verb past form (plagiarise, plagiarises, plagiarised, plagiarising; US plagiarize); adjective (plagiarised)

«plagiarised» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Plagiarised means copied from someone else's work and passed off as your own, without saying where it came from. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#m1)
2. As an adjective it describes work that was copied in this way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#m2)

### In the lessons

In school it is about homework and projects: copying from the internet or a classmate without saying so is plagiarism, and it is cheating. Pupils learn to put words in their own words and to say where facts came from. Phrases: «plagiarised essay», «plagiarised from the internet».

### Examples

- The teacher found that the essay was plagiarised. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#x1)
- He plagiarised a poem and said he wrote it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#x2)
- Plagiarised work gets zero marks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#x3)
- Don't copy and paste — that's plagiarised writing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#x4)
- She was upset that her story had been plagiarised. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#x5)
- Use your own words so your work isn't plagiarised. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#x6)
- The song was accused of being plagiarised. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#x7)
- Always list your sources to avoid plagiarised work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/#x8)

### Note

British spelling -ise, American -ize. Pronounced PLAY-jer-ized. Noun: plagiarism; person: plagiarist. Quoting with quotation marks and naming the source is NOT plagiarism.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «plagiarised» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plagiarised/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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