misappropriate
mis uh proh pree ayt
- v appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
- Apple further alleged that Jobs "secretly schemed" to misappropriate the corporation's confidential plans for a new computer.
- With others, Pennsylvania's Senator Mat thew Stanley Quay was charged with conspiracy to misappropriate public funds, a charge that deadlocked the Legislature and blocked Quay's .
- Face red with fury, Kennedy shouted: "I am appalled at this attempt to misappropriate the memory of my brothers .