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em·bez·zle
 embezzle
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transitive verb |
| inflections: |
embezzled, embezzles, embezzling |
| definition: |
to take by fraud for one's own use (money or property entrusted to one's care).
The director of the charity had been embezzling funds intended for children's hospitals.- synonyms:
- defalcate, misappropriate, peculate
- similar words:
- filch, misapply, pilfer, steal, swindle
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appropriate, graft |
| derivations: |
embezzlement (n.), embezzler (n.) |
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