8 letters · 30 points in Scrabble
verb appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
originFrom Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman embesiler, embesillier, embeseillier (“to steal, cause to disappear”), from em- + Old French besillier (“to torment, destroy, gouge”), of unknown origin.
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