embezzle

The word “embezzle” has 3 syllables: em-bez-zle

It's pronounced as /ɛmˈbɛzəl/


What is synonym and antonym for embezzle?

In the thesaurus, “embezzle” has 49 synonyms and 6 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for embezzle along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for embezzle

  • abstract
  • annex
  • appropriate
  • arrogate
  • assume
  • attach
  • claim
  • collar
  • commandeer
  • confiscate
  • convert
  • defalcate
  • despoil
  • encroach
  • expropriate
  • filch
  • forge
  • grab
  • grasp
  • impound
  • infringe
  • invade
  • loot
  • misapply
  • misappropriate
  • misuse
  • occupy
  • peculate
  • pilfer
  • pillage
  • pirate
  • preempt
  • preoccupy
  • press
  • purloin
  • put hand in cookie jar
  • put hand in till
  • repossess
  • seize
  • sequester
  • skim
  • snatch
  • steal
  • take over
  • thieve
  • trespass
  • usurp
  • wrench
  • wrest

Antonyms for embezzle

  • compensate
  • give
  • pay
  • receive
  • reimburse
  • return

Meanings of embezzle

  • verb
    1. To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

Example Sentences

  • The accountant was caught trying to embezzle funds from the company.
  • He went to prison for attempting to embezzle millions from investors.
  • It's a serious crime to embezzle money entrusted to you.
  • She discovered that a former employee had tried to embezzle small amounts over several years.
  • Authorities launched an investigation after noticing an attempt to embezzle public funds.

On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to embezzle, such as: abstract, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, attach, claim.

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takeover

  • accede
  • accept
  • acquiesce
  • adopt
  • advocate
  • agree
  • annex
  • annexation
  • appropriate
  • appropriation
  • arrogate
  • arrogation
  • assent
  • assume
  • assumption
  • attach
  • attachment
  • back
  • bear
  • champion
  • claim
  • collar
  • commandeer
  • commandeering
  • confiscate
  • confiscation
  • consent
  • convert
  • cover
  • defalcation
  • deforcement
  • despoil
  • despoilment
  • detainer
  • disfurnishment
  • dispossession
  • ejection
  • embezzle
  • embezzlement
  • embrace
  • encroach
  • encroachment
  • endorse
  • espouse
  • expropriate
  • expropriation
  • fill in
  • grab
  • grasp
  • impound
  • impoundment
  • indorse
  • infringe
  • infringement
  • invade
  • invasion
  • loot
  • looting
  • misapplication
  • misapply
  • misappropriate
  • misappropriation
  • misuse
  • occupancy
  • occupation
  • occupy
  • peculate
  • peculation
  • pillage
  • pillaging
  • pinch-hit
  • piracy
  • pirate
  • preempt
  • preemption
  • preoccupancy
  • preoccupy
  • press
  • reaccept
  • reassume
  • relieve
  • repossess
  • repossession
  • seize
  • seizure
  • sequester
  • sequestration
  • shoulder
  • snatch
  • spell
  • stand by
  • stand in
  • steal
  • step in
  • stripping
  • sub
  • substitute
  • support
  • take up
  • theft
  • trespass
  • understudy
  • undertake
  • uphold
  • usurp
  • usurpation
  • wrench
  • wrest

walk off with

  • abduct
  • achieve
  • annex
  • appropriate
  • be first
  • be victorious
  • beat
  • blackmail
  • boost
  • borrow
  • burglarize
  • carjack
  • carry off
  • carry the day
  • cheat
  • collar
  • come in first
  • conquer
  • cop
  • cozen
  • crib
  • defraud
  • despoil
  • divert
  • edge out
  • embezzle
  • filch
  • finish in front
  • finish off
  • gain
  • gain victory
  • grab
  • grasp
  • heist
  • highjack
  • hijack
  • hold for ransom
  • hold up
  • hook
  • housebreak
  • hustle
  • keep
  • kidnap
  • knock over
  • liberate
  • lift
  • loot
  • make away with
  • make off with
  • misappropriate
  • mooch
  • moonlight
  • nail
  • nick
  • nip
  • overcome
  • overwhelm
  • palm
  • peculate
  • pick
  • pickpocket
  • pilfer
  • pillage
  • pinch
  • pirate
  • plagiarize
  • pluck
  • plunder
  • poach
  • pocket
  • prevail
  • purloin
  • ransack
  • remove
  • requisition
  • rifle
  • rip off
  • rob
  • run circles around
  • run off with
  • rustle
  • sack
  • scrounge
  • seize
  • shanghai
  • shoplift
  • shut out
  • sink
  • snare
  • snatch
  • sneak
  • snipe
  • snitch
  • spirit
  • spirit away
  • sponge
  • steal
  • stick up
  • strip
  • swindle
  • swipe
  • take
  • take possession of
  • take the prize
  • thieve
  • triumph
  • upset
  • walk away with
  • withdraw

jive

  • BS
  • Charleston
  • Dixieland
  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • absurdity
  • act
  • adulation
  • advertise
  • affect
  • affected
  • aggrandize
  • alibi
  • allege
  • allusion
  • amuse
  • annoy
  • answer
  • apologetics
  • apologia
  • apologizing
  • apology
  • applause
  • applesauce
  • approbation
  • argot
  • argument
  • artfulness
  • artifact
  • artifice
  • artificial
  • assume
  • assumed
  • attract attention
  • babble
  • backhanded
  • badger
  • badinage
  • bait
  • balderdash
  • baloney
  • bamboozle
  • bamboozlement
  • bananas
  • banter
  • be at
  • be deceitful
  • be hypocritical
  • be noncommittal
  • beat around the bush
  • bebop
  • bedevil
  • beg the question
  • beguile
  • beleaguer
  • belie
  • bend
  • betray
  • bias
  • bilk
  • bill of goods
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blather
  • blow
  • blow hot and cold
  • blow smoke
  • blues
  • bluff
  • bluster
  • boast
  • bogus
  • bombast
  • bon mot
  • boogie
  • boogie down
  • boogie-woogie
  • boondoggle
  • bootlicking
  • bop
  • bother
  • buckle
  • bull
  • bully
  • bunco
  • bunk
  • bunkum
  • bunny hop
  • bureaucratese
  • burlesque
  • burn
  • buzz
  • caboodle
  • cajolery
  • campy
  • cant
  • canting
  • caricature
  • caricaturize
  • cartoon
  • catch
  • cavil
  • chaff
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chatty
  • cheat
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • chitchat
  • chouse
  • circumvent
  • circumvention
  • claim
  • claim falsely
  • claptrap
  • cleanup
  • clip
  • cloud the issue
  • cock-a-doodle-doo
  • coin
  • colloquial
  • colloquialism
  • colloquy
  • coloring
  • come-off
  • commendation
  • comment
  • common
  • communication
  • communion
  • computerese
  • con
  • con game
  • concoct
  • concoction
  • confab
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • confidence game
  • conga
  • congratulate oneself
  • consultation
  • contortion
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • conversation
  • conversational
  • converse
  • cop a plea
  • cop out
  • cop-out
  • counterfeit
  • cover
  • cover story
  • cover up
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cozen
  • cozening
  • crack
  • crack wise
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crap
  • craziness
  • create fiction
  • crock
  • crookedness
  • crow
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cut a rug
  • cyberspeak
  • debate
  • deceit
  • deceitful
  • deceive
  • deception
  • decoy
  • defense
  • deflate
  • defraud
  • delude
  • demotic
  • deride
  • device
  • devil
  • devious
  • devise
  • dialect
  • dialectal
  • diddle
  • dirty dealing
  • dirty pool
  • dirty trick
  • dirty work
  • disco
  • discussion
  • disguise
  • dishonest
  • dishonesty
  • disinform
  • dissemblance
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • distort
  • disturb
  • ditch
  • divert
  • do
  • do a number on
  • do number on
  • do out of
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • dog
  • double
  • double-cross
  • double-deal
  • double-dealing
  • double-faced
  • double-talk
  • drivel
  • duck
  • dupe
  • duplicity
  • educationese
  • elaborate explanation
  • elude
  • elusion
  • embezzle
  • empty
  • empty talk
  • encomium
  • entertain
  • equivocate
  • equivocating
  • equivocation
  • escape
  • eschew
  • eschewal
  • eulogy
  • evade
  • evading
  • evasion
  • evasiveness
  • everyday
  • exaggerate
  • exaggeration
  • exchange
  • exculpation
  • excuse
  • excusing
  • exoneration
  • expedient
  • explaining
  • expose
  • expression
  • extenuation
  • exult
  • eyewash
  • fable
  • fabricate
  • facade
  • facetious
  • facile
  • fairy story
  • fake
  • fake out
  • fakery
  • fallacy
  • false
  • false front
  • falsehood
  • falsify
  • fancy footwork
  • farce
  • fast one
  • fast shuffle
  • fatuity
  • fawning
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feint
  • fence
  • fib
  • fiction
  • figment
  • fish
  • fish story
  • fix
  • flapdoodle
  • flatter oneself
  • flattering
  • flaunt
  • fleece
  • fleer
  • flightiness
  • flimflam
  • flip-flop
  • flourish
  • flout
  • flummery
  • foil
  • folly
  • fool
  • foolery
  • foolishness
  • foot it
  • forced
  • forge
  • forgery
  • form
  • foul play
  • fox
  • foxtrot
  • frame
  • fraud
  • frolic
  • fudge
  • fudging
  • fugiviteness
  • fugivity
  • fulsomeness
  • fun
  • funny
  • fusion jazz
  • futile talk
  • gab
  • gag
  • gallantry
  • gambol
  • game
  • garbage
  • garble
  • gasconade
  • get down
  • gibberish
  • gibe
  • giddiness
  • gimmick
  • gird
  • give a good account of oneself
  • give a hard time
  • give the runaround
  • glib
  • gloat
  • glory
  • gnaw
  • goad
  • gobbledygook
  • goof on
  • gossip
  • governmentese
  • grandstand
  • grapevine
  • grounds
  • gull
  • hanky-panky
  • harass
  • harry
  • haze
  • hearing
  • hearsay
  • hector
  • hedge
  • hem and haw
  • hint
  • hoax
  • hoaxing
  • hocus-pocus
  • hogwash
  • hokum
  • hollow
  • hollow words
  • honeyed words
  • hoodwink
  • hooey
  • hop
  • horse around
  • hot air
  • hot jazz
  • hot-dog
  • hug oneself
  • humbug
  • humiliate
  • hustle
  • hypocrisy
  • hypocritical
  • hypocritical respect
  • hypocriticalness
  • idiocy
  • idiom
  • idiomatic
  • idle talk
  • illogicality
  • illogicalness
  • illude
  • illusion
  • imitation
  • impersonate
  • importune
  • impose on
  • impose upon
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • improbability
  • improvisational music
  • imprudence
  • inanity
  • incongruity
  • ingratiation
  • innuendo
  • insanity
  • insincere
  • insincerity
  • insinuation
  • intercourse
  • intorsion
  • invent
  • invention
  • irrationality
  • jabber
  • jape
  • jargon
  • jaw
  • jazz
  • jeer
  • jest
  • jibe
  • jig
  • jitter
  • jitterbug
  • jocular
  • joke
  • jolly
  • josh
  • journalese
  • juggle
  • juke
  • jump
  • justification
  • kid
  • kid around
  • lampoon
  • language
  • laud
  • laugh
  • laugh at
  • lay claim
  • lay on thick
  • lead on
  • lead up garden path
  • leap
  • left-handed
  • let on
  • lie
  • line
  • lingo
  • lip
  • lip devotion
  • lip homage
  • lip praise
  • lip reverence
  • lip worship
  • localism
  • ludicrousness
  • madness
  • make a fool of
  • make a game of
  • make a laughingstock
  • make believe
  • make fun of
  • make like
  • make merry
  • make out
  • make up
  • makeshift
  • malarkey
  • malconformation
  • malformation
  • malinger
  • masquerade
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • milk
  • mimic
  • mince words
  • misguide
  • misinterpretation
  • mislead
  • misrepresent
  • misrepresentation
  • misshape
  • misspeak
  • misstatement
  • misuse
  • mitigation
  • mock
  • mockery
  • monologue
  • mousetrap
  • mouth
  • mouth honor
  • mouthing
  • mumbo jumbo
  • mush
  • mutilation
  • myth
  • needle
  • noise
  • nonsense
  • nudge
  • number
  • obliqueness
  • obsequiousness
  • observation
  • off-time
  • one-liner
  • one-step
  • opus
  • outfox
  • outwit
  • palaver
  • palter
  • pan
  • parlance
  • parley
  • parody
  • parry
  • pass off
  • pass oneself off as
  • pass the buck
  • pat oneself on the back
  • patois
  • patter
  • persiflage
  • perversion
  • pester
  • pharisaical
  • pharisaism
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phoniness
  • phony
  • phony up
  • phony-baloney
  • pick on
  • pidgin
  • piffle
  • pilfer
  • pillow talk
  • pious
  • pitch
  • plague
  • plant
  • plaudits
  • play
  • play a trick on
  • play for a fool
  • play the clown
  • play trick on
  • play tricks
  • play-act
  • plea
  • pleasantry
  • poke fun
  • poke fun at
  • pooh-pooh
  • poppycock
  • popular
  • prank
  • prate
  • prattle
  • preen
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • pretty speech
  • prevaricate
  • prevarication
  • profess
  • promenade
  • promote
  • prose
  • provincialism
  • psych
  • psych out
  • puff
  • puffery
  • pull fast one
  • pull wool over
  • purport
  • pussyfoot
  • put down
  • put on
  • put one over on
  • put up a front
  • put-on
  • questioning
  • quibble
  • quip
  • quiz
  • racket
  • rag
  • ragtime
  • rail at
  • raillery
  • rally
  • ranting
  • rashness
  • rationalization
  • razz
  • regionalism
  • regrets
  • rejoinder
  • remark
  • repartee
  • reply
  • report
  • response
  • retort
  • return
  • revel
  • rhumba
  • rib
  • rib-tickler
  • ride
  • ridicule
  • ridiculousness
  • rigmarole
  • rip off
  • ripoff
  • roast
  • rob
  • rodomontade
  • rook
  • rot
  • routine
  • rubbish
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • run around
  • run down
  • runaround
  • ruse
  • sales talk
  • sally
  • samba
  • sanctimonious
  • satirize
  • scam
  • scoff
  • scorn
  • scout
  • scrawl
  • scribble
  • scuttlebutt
  • self-righteous
  • sell
  • sellout
  • semblance
  • send up
  • senselessness
  • set up
  • shady deal
  • shaft
  • sham
  • sharp practice
  • shell game
  • shift
  • shilly-shally
  • shirking
  • shoot
  • shop
  • shoptalk
  • shovel
  • show off
  • show up
  • showboat
  • shuck
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • shunning
  • sidestep
  • silliness
  • simon-pure
  • simulate
  • simulated
  • sit on the fence
  • slam
  • slang
  • slanguage
  • slant
  • sling
  • small talk
  • smoke
  • smooth talk
  • snap
  • snare
  • sneer
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • song
  • song and dance
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • sound
  • sound off
  • speak with forked tongue
  • speech
  • spiel
  • spin
  • spoof
  • sport
  • stab in the back
  • stall
  • step
  • stick
  • sting
  • stonewall
  • stopgap
  • story
  • strained
  • stratagem
  • street
  • stretch the truth
  • string along
  • stroking
  • strut
  • stultiloquence
  • stunt
  • stupidity
  • substitute
  • subterfuge
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • sucker into
  • superficial
  • swagger
  • sweet-talk
  • swindle
  • swing
  • swipe at
  • sycophancy
  • take
  • take for a ride
  • take in
  • take off
  • take the mickey out of
  • take to the cleaners
  • takeoff
  • talk
  • talk big
  • talkfest
  • tall story
  • tango
  • tantalize
  • tap
  • taunt
  • tease
  • technobabble
  • tell a little white lie
  • tell white lie
  • temporize
  • tergiversate
  • tergiverse
  • terminology
  • the business
  • thoughtlessness
  • toadyism
  • token agreement
  • tokenism
  • tomfoolery
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • torment
  • torture
  • trap
  • trash
  • travesty
  • treachery
  • tribute
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • trifle
  • trip the light fantastic
  • tripe
  • triumph
  • truckling
  • trump up
  • twaddle
  • twist
  • twistedness
  • twit
  • two-faced
  • two-step
  • unctuous
  • unctuousness
  • unmask
  • unnatural
  • unreasonableness
  • untruth
  • untruthful
  • useless words
  • vapor
  • vaunt
  • ventilation
  • vernacular
  • vernacularism
  • vex
  • victimize
  • vindication
  • visit
  • vocabulary
  • waffle
  • waltz
  • warp
  • weasel
  • whitewash
  • why and wherefore
  • wile
  • wiliness
  • wisecrack
  • witticism
  • work
  • worry
  • wrinkle
  • wrong
  • yak
  • yarn
  • yuck
  • yuk

take over

  • abandon
  • absorb
  • accede
  • accept
  • acceptance
  • accepting
  • accomplishment
  • accroach
  • acquiesce
  • acquire
  • acquisition
  • act for
  • active
  • adapt
  • addition
  • adjoin
  • administer
  • admit
  • adopt
  • adoption
  • advancing
  • adventurous
  • advocate
  • affiliate
  • affirm
  • affix
  • aggressive
  • agree
  • alert
  • alliance
  • allow
  • alter
  • alternate
  • amalgamation
  • ambitious
  • ambush
  • annex
  • annexation
  • annexing
  • annul
  • answer for
  • append
  • apprehend
  • appropriate
  • appropriation
  • approve
  • arrest
  • arrogate
  • arrogation
  • ascendancy
  • aspiring
  • assent
  • associate
  • assume
  • assuming
  • assumption
  • athletic
  • attach
  • attachment
  • attainment
  • attend to
  • audacious
  • back
  • back up
  • bag
  • balance
  • ball of fire
  • banish
  • be bequeathed
  • be blessed with
  • be born with
  • be endowed with
  • be granted
  • be in authority
  • be in place of
  • be in power
  • be left
  • be subsequent
  • beacon
  • bear
  • begin
  • big hit
  • big win
  • big-wheel
  • bogart
  • bold
  • borrow
  • boss
  • bounce
  • bouncing
  • breathe
  • bridle
  • bring in
  • bring into line
  • bring into the fold
  • brisk
  • bullish
  • bust
  • busy
  • buying
  • cahoots
  • call
  • call the shots
  • call upon
  • can
  • captain
  • capture
  • care for
  • carry
  • carry off
  • carry on
  • cashier
  • cast out
  • catch
  • champion
  • change
  • charge
  • check
  • cinch
  • claim
  • clap
  • clap hands on
  • claw
  • clean sweep
  • clutch
  • coach
  • coadunation
  • coalition
  • coerce
  • cogent
  • collar
  • combination
  • come in for
  • come into
  • come into possession
  • come next
  • coming on strong
  • command
  • commandeer
  • commandeering
  • commanding
  • commute
  • compel
  • compelling
  • compensate
  • concert
  • conduct
  • confiscate
  • confiscation
  • confisticate
  • connaturalize
  • connect
  • conquer
  • conquering
  • conquest
  • consent
  • constrain
  • constraining
  • consume
  • control
  • convert
  • convincing
  • cop
  • copyright
  • corner
  • corner the market
  • counsel
  • counterbalance
  • coup
  • cover
  • cover for
  • crack the whip
  • craving
  • crowd
  • curb
  • cut
  • cut out
  • daring
  • dashing
  • decree
  • deed
  • defalcation
  • defeating
  • deforcement
  • deport
  • depose
  • deprive of property
  • deputize
  • derive
  • desert
  • designate
  • despoil
  • despoilment
  • detainer
  • determine
  • dethrone
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