| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Defalcate.[Websters]
2. To have embezzled or misapplied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have misappropriated, plundered, ransacked, ravaged or flayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have despoiled, burgled or divested. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have cadged, scrounged or nobbled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have snatched, deprived, robbed, picked or plucked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have thwarted or frustrated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have undressed or disrobed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb defalcate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (defalcate) | 1. Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.[Wordnet]. 2. To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.[Websters]. 3. To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: defalcating, defalcated, defalcates, defalcator, defalcators, defalcatingly and defalcatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DEFALCATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Specialty Definition: defalcate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To cut off; to take away or deduct a part; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, &c.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] (transitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
