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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



... in advance, that Miss P*** May not strive to embezzle the laurels from me. That her Reverend friend may attend to his Litany, And leave me my fame, if perchance I shall get any. I deemed it best, to set at rest, This question before it was started, lest Some terrible girl from the far countree, Without proper ...
— Nothing to Say - A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has 'Nothing - to Do' with 'Nothing to Wear' • QK Philander Doesticks
... the said abbot doth daily embezzle, sell, and convey the goods and chattels, and jewels of the said monastery, having no need so to do: for it is thought that he hath a thousand marks or two thousand lying by him that he hath gotten by selling of orders, ...
— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude


Words linked to "Embezzle" :   defalcate, embezzler, misappropriate, peculate, embezzlement, fiddle, malversate


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