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defalcates

defalcates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of defalcate.

Meaning of defalcate

Verb

defalcate (third-person singular simple present defalcates, present participle defalcating, simple past and past participle defalcated)

  1. (intransitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cut off (a part of something).
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To deduct or take away (a part of income, money, rents, etc.).
    • One would have thought the natural method in a plan of reformation vvould be, to take the preſent exiſting eſtimates as they ſtand; and then to ſhevv vvhat may be practicably and ſafely defalcated from them.1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 42

Questions about defalcates

What is defalcates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Defalcates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of defalcate.

Words near defalcates in the dictionary

  1. defailure
  2. defaitism
  3. Defaka
  4. defalcate
  5. defalcated
  6. defalcates
  7. defalcating
  8. defalcation
  9. defalcations
  10. defalcator
  11. defalcators

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