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See definition of cribbed on Dictionary.com
  • as inlift
  • as inpilfer
  • as inpinch
  • as insimulate
  • as incheat
  • as infilch

synonyms for cribbed

  • take
  • abstract
  • appropriate
  • cop
  • crib
  • filch
  • hook
  • nip
  • pilfer
  • pinch
  • pirate
  • plagiarize
  • pocket
  • purloin
  • snitch
  • swipe
  • thieve
  • copy
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On this page you'll find 206 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cribbed, such as: take, abstract, appropriate, cop, crib, and filch.
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How to use cribbed in a sentence

Of course, now if I hand 'em in the old rhinoceros will think I cribbed 'em.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSON
I'd read about the quarantines in the Chronicle and I cribbed shamelessly from the quotes they'd published.
LITTLE BROTHERCORY DOCTOROW
When one is cabined, cribbed, confined in one's self, it is good to be enlarged in one's friends.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. I (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOT
Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners.
GREAT EXPECTATIONSCHARLES DICKENS
In the House of Commons, of late he had been so cabined, cribbed, and confined by office as to have enjoyed nothing of this.
PHINEAS FINNANTHONY TROLLOPE
Buster, youre a wonder at word painting, though I reckon you cribbed some of that stuff from the guide book.
MOTOR BOAT BOYS DOWN THE DANUBELOUIS ARUNDEL
Yes, or to live cribbed, cabined, and confined in a London square!
LAVENGROGEORGE BORROW
Evidently a new day of physical freedom is at last dawning for the most cribbed and crippled of Eve's unhappy daughters.
EIGHTY YEARS AND MORE; REMINISCENCES 1815-1897ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
This fellow, whoever he could have been, must have been hungry; for he cribbed our ham and stuff the first shot.
MOTOR BOAT BOYS' RIVER CHASELOUIS ARUNDEL
Langrish told me afterwards he cribbed this last sentence out of a story he had read in a weekly newspaper.
TOM, DICK AND HARRYTALBOT BAINES REED
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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