verb
- Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.
- usage: "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
- synonyms: embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate
adjective
- Taken for your own use in violation of a trust.
- usage: "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"
- synonyms: embezzled
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