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misappropriate

verb

1 misappropriate

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

synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate.

Roget 679: misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate.    desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste etc. 638; overtask, overtax, overwork: squander etc. ... show more

Dutch: achteroverdrukken, verdonkeremanen, verduisteren


Moby thesaurus: abuse, befoul, convert, debase, defalcate, defile, desecrate, divert, embezzle, expropriate, filch, foul, maladminister, misapply, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, peculate, pervert ... show more.

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