confiscate

UK /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/ US /ˈkɑnfəˌskeɪt/

verb 1adj 1

Definitions

verb

To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

In schools, it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.

We doe confiscate (Towards the satisfying of your accounts) All that you haue.

adj

Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.

Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum, / Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.

[…] thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.

Collocations

ADJ.

authorized, electronic, foreign, satisfying, soon

VERB + CONFISCATE

going, guard, need, wanted

CONFISCATE + NOUN

australian, knife, minister's, pocket, sandra's, students', tom, unto

PREP.

from, towards

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authori

adjective — surrendered as a penalty

forfeit
forfeited

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

In schools, it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.

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We doe confiscate (Towards the satisfying of your accounts) All that you haue.

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1768, Alexander Dow (translator), The History of Hindostan by Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī, London: T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 4, p. 63, The Persian having evacuated the impe

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Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum, / Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.

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[…] thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.

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[N]ot to lay into the Exchequer, or Common Treasury, such goods as are confiscate, but to store them up as holy and consecrate things, which except it bee practised, confiscations, and fines of the Co

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, confiscate is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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