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to embezzle
01
to secretly steal money entrusted to one's care, typically by manipulating financial records, for personal use or gain
Transitive: to embezzle money
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
embezzle
3rd person singular
embezzles
Present participle
embezzling
Past simple
embezzled
Past participle
embezzled
Examples
The financial officer was arrested for embezzling company funds for personal expenses.
Lexical Tree
embezzled
embezzlement
embezzler
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