confiscate
Meaning of confiscate
- take or seize (someone's property) with authority.
the guards confiscated his camera
mid 16th century: from Latin confiscat- ‘put away in a chest, consigned to the public treasury’, from the verb confiscare, based on con- ‘together’ + fiscus ‘chest, treasury’.
Information about confiscate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of confiscate is: confiscates.
- Languages in which confiscate is used:
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Hyphenation of confiscate
con-fis-cate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- confiscate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
confiscate synonyms
Meaning forfeit:
Meaning appropriated:
appropriated, condemned, confiscated, seized
Meaning impound:
impound, attach, sequester, seize
Meaning officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes:
Meaning demand the use or supply of (something) by official order:
Meaning take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission:
Meaning (of the state or an authority) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit:
Meaning take forcible possession of (something); confiscate:
Meaning remove (someone or something) from a particular place:
Meaning add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document:
Meaning seize (someone's property) in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed:
Meaning dispossess (someone) of land or property:
Meaning distrain or impound (a person's property):
confiscate antonyms
Meaning come or go back to a place or person:
Translation of confiscate
- French: confisquer, saisir
- Italian: confiscare, sequestrare
- German: konfiszieren, beschlagnahmen
- Spanish: confiscar
- Portuguese: confiscar
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