Synonyms of the word confiscate


CONFISCATEAPPROPRIATED - ATTACH - CONDEMNED - CONFISCATED - FORFEIT - FORFEITED - IMPOUND - LOST - SEIZE - SEIZED - SEQUESTER - TAKE - TAKEN

confiscate

  • v. (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
  • adj. (obsolete) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.

appropriated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of appropriate.

attach

  • v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
  • v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  • v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
  • v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  • v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
  • v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
  • v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

condemned

  • adj. Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
  • adj. Having been sharply scolded.
  • adj. Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
  • adj. (of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.
  • n. A person sentenced to death.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of condemn.

confiscated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of confiscate.

forfeit

  • n. A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
  • n. A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is…
  • n. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
  • v. To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance.
  • v. To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend…
  • v. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
  • v. To fail to keep an obligation.
  • adj. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

forfeited

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of forfeit.

impound

  • v. (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
  • v. (transitive) To hold back (for example water by a dam).
  • v. (transitive, law) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
  • v. (transitive, law, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on…
  • n. A place in which things are impounded.
  • n. A state of being impounded.
  • n. That which has been impounded.
  • n. (law, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for…

lost

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of lose.
  • adj. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
  • adj. In an unknown location; unable to be found.
  • adj. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
  • adj. Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
  • adj. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
  • adj. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
  • adj. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
  • adj. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.

seize

  • v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
  • v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
  • v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
  • v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
  • v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
  • v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
  • v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

seized

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of seize.

sequester

  • v. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
  • v. To separate in order to store.
  • v. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
  • v. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
  • v. (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against…
  • v. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property,…
  • v. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
  • v. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
  • v. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
  • v. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
  • n. sequestration; separation.
  • n. (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy;…
  • n. (medicine) A sequestrum.

take

  • v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove.
  • v. (transitive) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  • v. (transitive) To consume.
  • v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
  • v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  • v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  • v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  • v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  • v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  • v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  • v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
  • v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
  • v. (transitive) To require.
  • v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
  • v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
  • v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
  • v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
  • v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
  • v. (transitive) To move into.
  • v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
  • v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  • v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with.
  • v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
  • v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  • v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
  • n. The or an act of taking.
  • n. Something that is taken; a haul.
  • n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  • n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  • n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
  • n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  • n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  • n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  • n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

taken

  • adj. Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
  • adj. (informal) In a serious romantic relationship.
  • v. past participle of take.

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