Misappropriate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To appropriate wrongly: misappropriating the theories of social science.
  • v. To appropriate dishonestly for one's own use; embezzle.
  • v. To use illegally.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To use something wrongly, or illegally
  • v. To embezzle
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To appropriate wrongly; put to a wrong use: as, to misappropriate funds intrusted to one.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    steal   
    Hyponym
    fiddle   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    appropriate    embezzle    steal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    appropriate    expropriate   
     
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