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Past tense for to copy (another person's work) illicitly or without acknowledgment
“First, he allowed me to crib his music dictation. Then he offered to take me home to help me catch up.”
Past tense for to take or something without permission (especially a creative work)
“Look out for those tell-tale squares of blue light as desperate Shazammers try to crib her style.”
Past tense for to confine in a small space
“But it stoutly denies the sole reality of this existence, and refuses to equate man with the petty round of his earthly career and crib him within the small orbit of reason and the bounded horizons of his mental vision.”
Past tense for to complain about something in irritation or anger
Past tense for to gain an advantage or profit by using unfair or deceitful methods
Past tense for to imprison or incarcerate someone
Imitative of, or copied from, the work or elements of something else
Used so often as to become trite or banal
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