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pirate
pirate is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor.
- 2noun
An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.
- 3noun
One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.
- 4intransitive verb
To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.
- 5transitive verb
To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.
- 6noun
a ship that is manned by pirates
- 7noun
someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
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- 8noun
someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
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- 9verb
take arbitrarily or by force
"The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami"
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- 10verb
copy illegally; of published material
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