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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defalcate.

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  • Prop up a regime that ruthlessly decimates its opposition, crushes the free press, chokes civil society organizations, squanders and defalcates foreign aid and loans and lords imperiously over a famine-ravaged country?

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: J'Accuse! 2009

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