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misappropriating

misappropriating is the present participle and gerund 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 misappropriating

What is misappropriating the present participle and gerund of?
Misappropriating is the present participle and gerund of misappropriate.

Words near misappropriating in the dictionary

  1. misapprehensiveness
  2. misappropriate
  3. misappropriated
  4. misappropriately
  5. misappropriates
  6. misappropriating
  7. misappropriation
  8. misappropriations
  9. misappropriator
  10. misappropriators
  11. misapproximation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misappropriating (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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