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embezzled

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em·bez·zle  (m-bzl)
tr.v. em·bez·zled, em·bez·zling, em·bez·zles
To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.
[Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman enbesiler : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + Old French besillier, to ravage.]
em·bezzle·ment n.
em·bezzler n.
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Adj.1.embezzled - taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"
misappropriated
illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"
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If it should turn out that these suspicions are correct, and he has embezzled large sums, he must lie on his bed as he has made it.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
In the yard, was the man with the shadowy grievance respecting the Fund which the Marshal embezzled, who had got up at five in the morning to complete the copying of a perfectly unintelligible history of that transaction, which he had committed to Mr Dorrit's care, as a document of the last importance, calculated to stun the Government and effect the Marshal's downfall.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
It has been confided to him to invest, and he has embezzled it.
Beyond the City by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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