Synonyms of pirating

pirating 1 of 2

noun

as in piracy

the act or pursuit of robbing ships at sea

officially sanctioned pirating used to be common among warring nations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• piracy
• raiding
• robbery
• looting
• plundering
• pillaging
• depredation
• marauding
• plunder
• privateering
• despoliation
• sacking
• despoilment

pirating

2 of 2

verb

present participle of pirate

as in seizing

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right

using pirated software that was subject to copyright

Synonyms & Similar Words

• seizing
• stealing
• confiscating
• converting
• grabbing
• claiming
• appropriating
• usurping
• commandeering
• invading
• occupying
• assuming
• preempting
• looting
• annexing
• expropriating
• taking over
• arrogating
• snatching
• pressing
• pillaging
• attaching
• infringing
• impounding
• repossessing
• despoiling
• trespassing
• encroaching
• grasping
• sequestering
• misusing
• misappropriating
• embezzling
• collaring
• wrenching
• wresting
• misapplying
• preoccupying
• peculating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pirating

Noun

No drugs were found, but Simpson’s home address had also come up during the investigation as one potentially linked to the purchase of satellite TV pirating equipment. — ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026

But, the pirating is essentially stopped. — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2026

Verb

Cox won’t help defendants beat allegations of direct copyright infringement, those claims in which the company itself is accused of pirating. — ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026

Sony lawyer argued Cox failed to act Paul Clement, the lawyer representing the music industry, countered that Cox is manufacturing a worst-case scenario after failing to take reasonable steps to respond to repeat offenders of peer-to-peer file sharing – the most common means of pirating music. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026

As evidence, the music labels enlisted a third-party company to flag users found to be pirating content via peer-to-peer file-sharing protocols such as BitTorrent. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026

Anthropic has already been in the hot seat for getting caught pirating millions of digital copies of books. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026

Partida later discovered another neighbor's video showing a man wearing the same hat stealing another package — raising concerns about a possible porch-pirating spree. — Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025

The discovery ruling bolsters what’s increasingly looking like a winning argument over the practice of pirating books from shadow libraries. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 26 Nov. 2025

When pirating hindered the shipping of gold to Lisbon, Paraty pivoted to farming sugarcane (the basis of cachaça) and later became one of the earliest hubs for coffee growing in a country that is still the globe’s largest exporter of beans. — David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025

Downtown Street Teams was founded in Palo Alto in 2005 by Eileen Richardson, a venture capitalist and former chief executive of Napster, a digital platform once known for pirating music that’s since become a streaming service. — Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025