to confiscate
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5.5
- verb
- /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
:
confiscar
- The security guard had to confiscate the prohibited items from the visitors.
- confiscate property
- confiscate land
- confiscate assets
Law enforcement can now show up and confiscate your guns, right?
- Law enforcement can now show up and confiscate your guns, right?
- What is the process of confiscating a dolphin in Indonesia?
- So they showed up and confiscated the knives.
- But anyway, back then they didn't confiscate, for instance, historic US coins.
- Expeditions move through the land to confiscate church property.
- I mean, the, the government confiscated his, his tools, his tricycle before.
- They've shut the banking system down more than they've confiscated gold.
- Trump she wants to confiscate everyone's gun, ban fracking and defund the police.
- Not only that, he was pulled over by the feds and the pills were confiscated.
- And what's more, it seemed kind of quirky for Iman to take this position about confiscating our property that we had generated.
- And the cops were told to go out and confiscate all of this stuff and arrest some of the news dealers just to scare them off.
- They were used for things like confiscating agricultural produce for the German soldiers at the front, Aureihaus writes on Twitter.
Examples
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Law enforcement can now show up and confiscate your guns, right?
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The same report revealed that California school personnel confiscated over 8,500 weapons, including guns, knives, and explosives.
Academic text (1994) -
Be back immediately to confiscate the money.
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Expeditions move through the land to confiscate church property.
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Every year we confiscate the winning car, keep it here, so they can't use it again.
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Those items will be confiscated by security personnel and destroyed.
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The police went on with dogs, grabbed the suitcase, confiscated it and no charges were pressed.
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Do you know how much Bitcoin the federal government confiscated from Ross Ulbricht?
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The soldiers are searching the house for weapons; they're confiscating all the guns in Charleston.
Fiction book (1991) -
Customs officials can confiscate goods that are illegal to import.
Synonyms
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4.6
To take something using legal power, often for a short time
50
7.1
To take someone's property by legal order to pay a debt
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5.1
Take away someone's possessions, rights, or honours
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7.2
To take and keep something by law, often cars or goods
4
8.8
To take property from its owner, usually by the government for public use
4
7.2
Take away power, rights, or property from someone by official order
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8.6
To take official control of property for a time by court order
Antonyms
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
confiscate = confisc + ate
The apparent components ('confisc' + '-ate') are not productive English morphemes familiar to B1 learners, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from known English base words.
Etymology
The word confiscate comes from Latin parts con- meaning 'together' and fiscus meaning 'public purse', and it is related to the word fiscal. So to confiscate something is like moving it into the public purse — the state takes it away legally as a penalty.