To confiscate means to take away temporarily for security or legal reasons. It implies an act by an authority upon one of less power. If you use your cell phone in class, the teacher might confiscate it for the day.
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
Verb
take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
Adjective S.
taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain"
Adjective S.
surrendered as a penalty
a.
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public
use; forfeited.
v. t.
To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to
appropriate to the public use.
Confiscate
Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
Confiscate
It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized.
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
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