Defalcate: alternatives and connections

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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A wicker fish basket.

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A handle; a stale, or stele.

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A defaulter or embezzler.

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A defaulter or embezzler.

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The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for manag…

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The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for manag…

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To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezz…

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To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.

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To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.