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DEFALCATE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
defalcate; embezzle; malversate; misappropriate; peculate
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "defalcate" is one way to...):
rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "defalcate"):
fiddle (commit fraud and steal from one's employer)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Derivation:
defalcation (the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else)
defalcator (someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use)
