EGAVE

pirate

About 1.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
    You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
  2. noun An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
  3. noun One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
  4. noun A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
  5. noun A kind of marble in children's games.
  6. verb To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
    They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
  7. verb To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
  8. verb To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
    Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.

Similar words

buccaneer pirate ship highjack hijack commandeer expropriate plagiarist sea rover literary pirate sea robber

Often followed by

ship and ships captain of who in was radio

Word family

pirated pirates piratical piratically pirating

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