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Borg

Pronunciation: /bɔːɡ/

The English word “Borg” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One who proselytises or assimilates.

verb

  1. To assimilate rivals, via corporate acquisition or religious proselytisation.
  2. To turn into a cyborg, to implant machinery into people with the intent of controlling or assimilating them.

Etymology

* As a Danish and Norwegian surname, from various places derived from Old Norse borg (“stronghold”). * As a north/Low German surname, this is the Low German form of the surname Burg. * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish בורג (burg, “credit”), from Middle High German borgen (“to lend, borrow”), from Old High German borgēn. * As a Maltese surname, from the noun borġ (“tower, stronghold”), distantly…

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