misappropriate

Questions about misappropriate

What is another word for misappropriate?

It depends which misappropriate you mean. In the sense “appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use”, the synonyms are embezzle, defalcate, peculate, malversate. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of misappropriate?

WordNet records no antonym for misappropriate. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for misappropriate come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of misappropriate

• Full entry for misappropriateAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for misappropriateWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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