different between defraud vs misappropriate

English

Alternative forms

• defraude (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from de- + frauder.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?.?f???d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Verb

defraud (third-person singular simple present defrauds, present participle defrauding, simple past and past participle defrauded)

1. (transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.

   • I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

2. (archaic) To deprive.

   • 1872, William Goodell, "On Conjugal Onanism and Kindred Sins", Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, vol. 9, page 63.

Related terms

• befraud
• defrauder

Translations

See also

• fraudster

Anagrams

• frauded

English

Etymology

mis- +? appropriate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?s.??p???.p??.e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?s.??p?o?.p?i.e?t/

Verb

misappropriate (third-person singular simple present misappropriates, present participle misappropriating, simple past and past participle misappropriated)

1. (transitive) To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.
2. (transitive) To embezzle.

   The accountant was found to have misappropriated funds over a period of three years.

Synonyms

• (take for wrong purposes): misuse
• (embezzle): defalcate, embezzle, peculate

Derived terms

• misappropriation

Translations