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embezzle

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8 lettersPronunciation /ɪmˈbɛz.əl/Part of speech verbSorted beeelmzzStarts with EEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

Word origin

From Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman embesiler, embesillier, embeseillier (“to steal, cause to disappear”), from em- + Old French besillier (“to torment, destroy, gouge”), of unknown origin.

Used in a sentence

  • You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.
  • You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
  • A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling.

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