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Defeclate vs Embezzle - What's the difference?

defeclate | embezzle |

As a verb embezzle is

(legal|business) to steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

defeclate

Not English

Defeclate has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'defeclate':

difficile, depucelate, depucelage, devocalize, debigulate

embezzle

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (legal, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
  • * 1903, , Twelve Stories and a Dream
    • You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle'. For my own part, I ' embezzle .
  • * 1861,
    • You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?

    Synonyms

    * defalcate * misappropriate * peculate

    Derived terms

    * embezzler * embezzlement

    References