| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| embezzle |
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| SYLLABICATION: | em·bez·zle |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m-bz  l |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: em·bez·zled, em·bez·zling, em·bez·zles
To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman enbesiler : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en–1 + Old French besillier, to ravage. | | OTHER FORMS: | em·bezzle·ment —NOUN
em·bezzler —NOUN
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