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🚫 To take away 🏛️ Taken by authority
confiscate

confiscate

6.9
Property taken by the authorities as a punishment
  • adjective
  • /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
translation icon : confiscado
  • After the trial, the government auctioned off several confiscate properties linked to criminal activity.

Examples

  • The police stored the confiscate goods in a secure facility until the investigation was completed.

  • The customs officer listed the confiscate items in an official report for further examination.

  • The police found the confiscate items.

  • Why were the goods marked as confiscate by the authorities?

  • The customs officer listed the confiscate items in an official report for further examination.

  • After the trial, the government auctioned off several confiscate properties linked to criminal activity.

  • The police stored the confiscate goods in a secure facility until the investigation was completed.

Synonyms

forfeit
vsconfiscate
4 6.8

Taken away as a punishment or by law

is taken by officials as a penalty rather than lost automatically
forfeited
vsconfiscate
5.4

Taken away as a punishment for breaking a rule or law

is seized by authority as punishment rather than lost by rule breach

Antonyms

return
231 1.0

An act of giving something back to its owner

How Seized

confiscate
6.9
to seize
  • Formal
156 4.6
forfeited
5.4
to surrender
722 4.4

Surface Forms

confiscate positive

Etymology

The adjective confiscate comes from the same Latin parts con- meaning 'together' and fiscus meaning 'public purse', so it describes property that has been taken by the state into public money as a penalty.