MISAPPROPRIATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they misappropriate ... he / she / it misappropriates

Past simple: misappropriated

Past participle: misappropriated

-ing form: misappropriating

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 "misappropriate" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misappropriate"):

fiddle (commit fraud and steal from one's employer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

misappropriation (the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else)