Word Meanings - EMBEZZLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. 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. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
Additional info about word: EMBEZZLE
1. 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. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming. Sharp.
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- SMUGGLER
1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling. - PILFERY
Petty theft. Sir T. North. - EMBEZZLE
1. 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. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. - SWINDLER
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages. - STEALINGLY
By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney. - STEALTH
1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to - PURLOINER
One who purloins. Swift. - PURLOIN
To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden. (more info) pur, por, pour, for + loin - STEALTHLIKE
Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth. - SWINDLERY
Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle. - PILFERING
Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n. - STEALTHFUL
Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n. - FILCHER
One who filches; a thief. - PILFERER
One who pilfers; a petty thief. - PILFER
To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft. (more info) Etym: - STEALER
The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief. - SMUGGLE
smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by - STEALTHINESS
The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth. - EMBEZZLER
One who embezzles. - STEALING
1. The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. 2. That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural. - SUBPERIOSTEAL
Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum. - PERIOSTEAL
Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum. - FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart. - PAROSTEAL
Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification. - ECTOSTEAL
Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification. - OTOSTEAL
An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.