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Thesaurus: defalcate

To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.

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  1. v. t. To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
  2. v. i. To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.
  3. v. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
  4. v appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use