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misappropriated

misappropriated is the simple past and past participle of misappropriate.

Meaning of misappropriate

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.

Questions about misappropriated

What is misappropriated the simple past and past participle of?
Misappropriated is the simple past and past participle of misappropriate.

Words near misappropriated in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misappropriated (page history and authors); misappropriate (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.

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