- (v.t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
- (v.t.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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