different between disappropriate vs misappropriate

English

Etymology

dis- +? appropriate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s??p???p??e?t/

Verb

disappropriate (third-person singular simple present disappropriates, present participle disappropriating, simple past and past participle disappropriated)

1. To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.

Adjective

disappropriate (not comparable)

1. (law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.

   • The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.

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