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embezzle (iou) and Molotov cocktail (oh)


embezzle (iou)



embezzle verb trans. LME.
[Anglo-Norman embesiler, formed as EM-1 + besiler in same sense (whence BEZZLE verb) = Old French besillier maltreat, ravage, destroy; of unkn. origin.]
Make off with (provisions, money, etc.); steal. LME-M18.
b. Steal or fraudulently destroy (a legal document); tamper with (any document). LME-L17.
Weaken, impair. M16-L17.
b. Squander, dissipate. L16-L18.
Esp. of an employee or servant: misappropriate or steal (money, goods, etc.) belonging to or on their way to an employer or master, in violation of trust or duty. L16.
G. Greene A sense of guilt..as though he had embezzled the company's money.
embezzlement noun the action or an act of embezzling; misappropriation of entrusted money etc.: M16.
embezzler noun M17.

Molotov cocktail (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: Vyacheslav M. Molotov (1890-1986), Soviet politician]
a simple bomb consisting of a bottle filled with petrol with a piece of cloth in the end