Word.ws English Dictionary

misappropriate

/ˌmɪs.əˈpɹəʊ.pɹɪ.eɪt/US/ˌmɪs.əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/

misappropriate verb: to take something for wrong or illegal purposes.

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.
    Synonyms:
    misuse
  2. (transitive) To embezzle.
    • The accountant was found to have misappropriated funds over a period of three years.

misappropriate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

misappropriate in Tamil

கையாடல் செய்

misappropriate in Urdu

بےایمانی کرنا, غبن کرنا, کھانا, خرد برد کرنا

misappropriate in Bengali

তছরুপ করা, আত্মসাৎ করা, অবৈধভাবে ব্যবহার করা

misappropriate in Telugu

to misappropriate, to embezzle
అపహరించు apahariñcu
More languagesFewer languages
misappropriate in Malayalam
പണം അപഹരിക്കുക, ധനാപഹരണം നടത്തുക, ദുരുപയോഗപ്പെടുത്തുക, ദുർവ്വിനിയോഗം ചെയ്യുക
misappropriate in Kannada
ದುರುಪಯೋಗಿಸು, ದುರುಪಯೋಗ ಮಾಡು, ತಪ್ಪುಬಳಸು, ಅಪವಿನಿಯೋಗ ಮಾಡು

Synonyms of misappropriate

All synonyms of misappropriate

Forms of misappropriate

third-person singular presentmisappropriates
present participlemisappropriating
past participlemisappropriated
pastmisappropriated

Origin of misappropriate

From mis- + appropriate.

Words formed from misappropriate

Questions about misappropriate

What does misappropriate mean?
Misappropriate means to take something for wrong or illegal purposes.
What is misappropriate in Tamil?
Misappropriate in Tamil is கையாடல் செய். See Misappropriate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is misappropriate?
Misappropriate is a verb.
How do you pronounce misappropriate?
Misappropriate is pronounced /ˌmɪs.əˈpɹəʊ.pɹɪ.eɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of misappropriate?
The past tense of misappropriate is misappropriated.

Words near misappropriate in the dictionary

  1. misapprehension
  2. misapprehensions
  3. misapprehensive
  4. misapprehensively
  5. misapprehensiveness
  6. misappropriate
  7. misappropriated
  8. misappropriately
  9. misappropriates
  10. misappropriating
  11. misappropriation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misappropriate (page history and authors); misappropriate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misappropriate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misappropriate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అపహరించు (Telugu) (page history and authors); misappropriate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); misappropriate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-misappropriate.wav.

Cite this entry: “misappropriate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/misappropriate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.