Crossword-Solution: DEFALCATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Defalcate | v. t. | To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. |
| Defalcate | v. i. | To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “DEFALCATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| make wrong use of funds entrusted to one | 1 answer |
| Embezzle | 14 answers |
| Defraud | 41 answers |
| Steal | 64 answers |
| fiddle | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACEMEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DEFALCATE (2)
Jest like a criminal he skipped, an' aimed to defalcate The Chewed-ear Jenkins Hirsute Propagation Syndicate.
What if all he says of the state of this balance were true? did not the same objections always lie to custom-house entries? do they defalcate more from the entries of 1766 than from those of 1754? If they prove us ruined, we were always ruined.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).