Confiscate
11confiscate — [16] Confiscate’s etymological connotations are financial: the Latin verb confīscāre meant ‘appropriate to the public treasury’. It was formed from the collective prefix com and fiscus. This meant originally ‘rush basket’; it was applied to the… …
12confiscate — [[t]kɒ̱nfɪskeɪt[/t]] confiscates, confiscating, confiscated VERB If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment. [V n from n] There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people …
13confiscate — UK [ˈkɒnfɪˌskeɪt] / US [ˈkɑnfɪˌskeɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms confiscate : present tense I/you/we/they confiscate he/she/it confiscates present participle confiscating past tense confiscated past participle confiscated to officially remove… …
14confiscate — [16] Confiscate’s etymological connotations are financial: the Latin verb confīscāre meant ‘appropriate to the public treasury’. It was formed from the collective prefix com and fiscus. This meant originally ‘rush basket’; it was applied to the… …
15confiscate — I. adjective Etymology: Latin confiscatus, past participle of confiscare to confiscate, from com + fiscus treasury Date: circa 1533 1. appropriated by the government ; forfeited 2. deprived of property by confiscation II. transitive verb ( c …
16confiscate — verb To take possession of by force or authority; expropriate. In schools it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions. Syn: appropriate, arrogate, usurp …
17confiscate — verb Confiscate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑passport, ↑property …
18confiscate — confiscatable, adj. confiscation, n. confiscator, n. /kon feuh skayt , keuhn fis kayt/, v., confiscated, confiscating, adj. v.t. 1. to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use. 2. to seize by or as… …
19confiscate — Synonyms and related words: accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, attach, collectivize, commandeer, communalize, communize, distrain, expropriate, garnish, impound, impress, levy, nationalize, preempt, press, replevin, replevy, seize, sequester …
20confiscate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. take, seize, commandeer, appropriate. See acquisition, condemnation. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. appropriate, impound, usurp; see seize 2 , steal . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. seize, appropriate …
