malversate

Thesaurus

Verb

1.malversate - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculatefiddle - commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"steal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"