embezzle
Verb
Verb Forms: embezzled, embezzling, embezzles
- To fraudulently appropriate money or property entrusted to one's care.
- appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
- "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
- To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
Examples
- He tried to embezzle extra points by claiming a misspelled word was valid, but I caught him.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate, have one's hand in the till
Scrabble Score: 30
embezzle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordembezzle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
embezzle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary