em|bez|zle

em|bez|zle
em|bez|zle «ehm BEHZ uhl», transitive verb, -zled, -zling.
1. to steal (money entrusted to one's care): »

The cashier embezzled $50,000 from the bank and left the country.

SYNONYM(S): misappropriate.
2. Obsolete. to waste; squander; dissipate.
[< Anglo-French embesiler, apparently < en- in (< Latin in-) + beseler destroy, perhaps < bisel a gouge; sloping edge < biais slant, bias]

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