embezzle

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The same penalty will be inflicted on every person who is found to embezzle, trade, or offer to trade with any part of the ship's stores of what nature soever.

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  1. transitive verb To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.

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  1. Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman enbesiler : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + Old French besillier, to ravage.

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  1. Early modern English (16th cent.) imbezzle, imbezel, embesyll, embecyll, embesel, imbesel, imbezil, imbecill, etc., weaken, diminish, filch, from imbecile (accented on 2d syll.), from Old French imbecille, weak, feeble: see imbecile, and cf. bezzle.
 

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/ɛmˈbɛzl/
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