transitive verb. To take (money one has been entrusted with) for personal use.

To weaken; diminish the power or extent of.

To waste or dissipate in extravagance; misappropriate or misspend.

To steal slyly; purloin; filch; make off with.

To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as what is intrusted to one's care; apply to one's private use by a breach of trust, as a clerk or servant who misappropriates his employer's money or valuables.

To confuse; amaze.

transitive verb. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust.

transitive verb. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.

verb. To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from one's employer.

verb. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

"Further down the translator appears to have mislaid the word embezzle:"

embezzlement  embezzler  

steal  

fiddle  

abstract  abuse  and  annex  appropriate  

embezzled  embezzles  embezzling