Plagiarize vs. Plagiarizer

(ambitransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech.

To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own

Example: ‘he was fined $6,000 for having plagiarized the song’;

take the work or an idea of (someone) and pass it off as one's own

Example: ‘the author claims she was plagiarized’;

A person who plagiarizes

someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own