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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use;
- Example: "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
[syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Misappropriate \Mis`ap*pro"pri*ate\, v. t. To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

misappropriate v 1: 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" [syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "misappropriate": abuse, befoul, convert, debase, defalcate, defile, desecrate, divert, embezzle, expropriate, filch, foul, maladminister, misapply, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pocket, pollute, profane, prostitute, steal, violate