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Embezzle   Listen
verb
Embezzle  v. t.  (past & past part. embezzled; pres. part. embezzling)  
1.
To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.
2.
To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. (Obs.) "To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming."





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"Embezzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... that it should bloom with flowers made by a poor shoeless girl in another: it instigates Mrs. C. to make a friendly call on Mrs. D. for the purpose of exulting over the inferior style in which her house is furnished: it tempts F. to overreach his business friend, or to embezzle his employer's money, that he may live in a house with a brown-stone front and give great dinners twice a month: and it sustains G. in his own eyes as he sits at F.'s table stimulating digestion by inward sneers at the vulgar fashion of the new ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various


Words linked to "Embezzle" :   peculate, steal, fiddle, malversate


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