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What is another word for misappropriating?

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Verb
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Present participle for to dishonestly take something for one's own use
stealing
pilfering
purloining
swiping
expropriating
filching
heisting
lifting
nicking
pinching
pocketing
robbing
snitching
thieving
annexing
appropriating
embezzling
hooking
skimming
snaring
nipping
plucking
plundering
swindling
taking
whipping
boosting
cabbaging
defalcating
palming
requisitioning
scrounging
snatching
trousering
boning
borrowing
copping
peculating
rifling
absconding with
knocking off
ripping off
running off with
walking off with
half-inching
making off with
helping oneself to
making away with
siphoning off
helping yourself
nabbing
snaffling
glomming
nobbling
blagging
liberating
abstracting
shoplifting
looting
carrying off
walking away with
snavelling
cribbing
running away with
taking for oneself
scrumping
poaching
pillaging
souveniring
removing
burglarizing
walking
commandeering
seizing
taking possession of
arrogating
going walkies
hijacking
bagging
taking over
burgling
flogging
acquiring
usurping
jacking
assuming
converting
spiriting away
confiscating
pickpocketing
sneaking
raiding
sequestering
ransacking
preempting
pirating
cheating
pressing
wresting
accroaching
holding up
claiming
taking from
having sticky fingers
fingering
running off
smuggling
rustling
dispossessing of
grabbing
using
keeping
defrauding
gaining possession of
carting off
sequestrating
prigging
impounding
kidnapping
kidnaping
abducting
deriving
obtaining
simulating
taking illegally
cozening
withdrawing
mooching
disseizing
distraining
poinding
committing fraud
putting hand in cookie jar
committing white-collar crime
stealing money
having one's hand in the till
cheating one of
stripping one of
defrauding one of
dipping into the public purse
defrauding someone of
holding for ransom
sticking up
taking away
making claim to
cooking the books
securing
dispossessing
relieving
draining
despoiling
disinheriting
bereaving
demanding
knocking over
stealing from
taking off
taking on
claiming unduly
laying claim to
making free with
using without asking
moonlight requisitioning
clapping hands on
getting your hands on
grabbing hold of
reaving
snagging
pre-empting
shop stealing
helping
plowingUS
ploughingUK
nailing
capturing
getting
netting
arrogating to oneself
getting one's fingers on
kiping
glomming onto
yanking
highjacking
snapping up
repossessing
glomming on to
possessing oneself of
“If not closely monitored, they will embezzle aid money and misappropriate resources provided by the coalition.”
Verb
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Present participle for to use (something) in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose
misapplying
misusing
perverting
abusing
misemploying
mismanaging
profaning
prostituting
exploiting
mishandling
embezzling
distorting
warping
squandering
wasting
making bad use of
corrupting
desecrating
using fraudulently
running through
going through
putting to wrong use
misdirecting
misallocating
mistreating
depraving
defiling
polluting
spoiling
tainting
manipulating
impairing
ill-using
taking advantage of
using inexpertly
treating roughly
handling roughly
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