Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to embezzle
Participle: embezzled
Gerund: embezzling
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | embezzle |
| you | embezzle |
| he;she;it | embezzles |
| we | embezzle |
| you | embezzle |
| they | embezzle |
Perfect
| I | have embezzled |
| you | have embezzled |
| he;she;it | has embezzled |
| we | have embezzled |
| you | have embezzled |
| they | have embezzled |
Past
| I | embezzled |
| you | embezzled |
| he;she;it | embezzled |
| we | embezzled |
| you | embezzled |
| they | embezzled |
Pluperfect
| I | had embezzled |
| you | had embezzled |
| he;she;it | had embezzled |
| we | had embezzled |
| you | had embezzled |
| they | had embezzled |
Future
| I | will embezzle |
| you | will embezzle |
| he;she;it | will embezzle |
| we | will embezzle |
| you | will embezzle |
| they | will embezzle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have embezzled |
| you | will have embezzled |
| he;she;it | will have embezzled |
| we | will have embezzled |
| you | will have embezzled |
| they | will have embezzled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | embezzle |
| you | embezzle |
| he;she;it | embezzle |
| we | embezzle |
| you | embezzle |
| they | embezzle |
Perfect
| I | have embezzled |
| you | have embezzled |
| he;she;it | have embezzled |
| we | have embezzled |
| you | have embezzled |
| they | have embezzled |
Imperfect
| I | embezzled |
| you | embezzled |
| he;she;it | embezzled |
| we | embezzled |
| you | embezzled |
| they | embezzled |
Pluperfect
| I | had embezzled |
| you | had embezzled |
| he;she;it | had embezzled |
| we | had embezzled |
| you | had embezzled |
| they | had embezzled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would embezzle |
| you | would embezzle |
| he;she;it | would embezzle |
| we | would embezzle |
| you | would embezzle |
| they | would embezzle |
Perfect
| I | would have embezzled |
| you | would have embezzled |
| he;she;it | would have embezzled |
| we | would have embezzled |
| you | would have embezzled |
| they | would have embezzled |
Imperative
| you | embezzle |
| we | Let's embezzle |
| you | embezzle |
Verbs conjugated like 'embezzle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'embezzle'
imbezzle,
bezzle,
empuzzle,
buzzle,
embale,
embattle,
emblaze,
embottle,
empeople,
endazzle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- misappropriate
- steal, thieve, peculate, pillage, pilfer
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1469, from Anglo-Fr.
embesiler "to steal, cause to disappear" (1305), from O.Fr.
besillier "torment, destroy, gouge," of unknown origin. Sense of "to dispose of fraudulently" is first recorded 1585.
2. From Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman embesiler, embesillier, embeseillier (“to steal, cause to disappear”), from em- + Old French besillier (“to torment, destroy, gouge”), of unknown origin.
Verbs referencing "embezzle"
English
bezzle.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1903, H. G. Wells, “Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation”, in Twelve Stories and a Dream:]
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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? [1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:]
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A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling. [1959 October 26, Michael Robbins, “The Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 721:]