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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



... the bargain or trick of the game is by the main operators well known and availed of for their own behoof. By letter, persons have been introduced into circles where they had no footing, posts for whose responsibilities they were utterly unfit, and trusts whose funds they showed more faculty to embezzle than apply. Such licentious proceedings have good-natured concessions to wrong requests multiplied to the hurt of the commonweal. Let us beware of this kind of sympathetic lie, which ends in robbery, and swindles thousands out of what ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various
... and considered independence a proof of corruption. It has been likewise proved to your Lordships that he suffered the army to become an instrument of robbery and oppression, and one of its officers to be metamorphosed into a farmer-general to waste the country and embezzle its revenues. You have seen a clandestine and fraudulent system, occasioning violence and rapine; and you have seen the prisoner at the bar acknowledging and denouncing an abandoned spirit of rapacity without bringing its ministers ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke


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


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