PECULATE Synonyms

• appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

• weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

• weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a deception for profit to yourself

• deprive somebody of something by deceit

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

• deprive of by deceit

• goods or money obtained illegally

• informal terms for money

• take illegally; of intellectual property

• steal goods; take as spoils

• make off with belongings of others

• a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

• an enclosed space

• a supply of money

• (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left

• a hollow concave shape made by removing something

• a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly

• a small isolated group of people

• (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)

• an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck

• put in one's pocket

• take unlawfully

• take something away by force or without the consent of the owner

• rip off; ask an unreasonable price

• an advantageous purchase

• a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

• take without the owner's consent

• move stealthily

• steal a base

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit

• appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

• appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use