em·bez·zle /im-'be-zəl/ vt em·bez·zled, em·bez·zling [Anglo-French embeseiller to make away with, from en -, prefix stressing completion + beseller to snatch, misappropriate, from Old French, to destroy]: to convert (property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use compare defalcate
em·bez·zle·ment n
em·bez·zler n
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.