malversate

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malversate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  malversate
      v 1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care)
           fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled
           thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
           [syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate,
           misappropriate, malversate]