different between misappropriate vs swindle

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

English

Etymology

Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln, from Middle High German swindeln, swindelen, from Old High German swintiln, frequentative of the verb swintan; compare Modern German schwindeln, Danish svindel and svindle, Dutch zwindelen and zwendelen, Yiddish ???????? (shvindl), Low German swinneln, Middle English swinden (“to languish, waste away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw?nd(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?nd?l

Verb

swindle (third-person singular simple present swindles, present participle swindling, simple past and past participle swindled)

1. (transitive) To defraud.

   The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

   She swindled more than £200 out of me.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deceive
• (to be swindled): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
• (to defraud): swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

Noun

swindle (plural swindles)

1. An instance of swindling.
2. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deception
• scheme
• swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

Anagrams

• Windles, wildens, windles