Confiscate
Word | CONFISCATE |
Character | 10 |
Hyphenation | con fis cate |
Pronunciations | N/A |
Definitions and meanings of "Confiscate"
What do we mean by confiscate?
To seize (private property) for the public treasury, especially as a penalty for wrongdoing. transitive verb
To seize by authority: synonym: appropriate. transitive verb
Seized by a government; appropriated. adjective
Having lost property through confiscation. adjective
To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; appropriate, by way of penalty, to public use.
To take away from another by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily, as anything improperly held or obtained by another; seize as forfeited for any reason: as, to confiscate a book; the police confiscated a set of gambling implements.
Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.
Appropriated under legal authority as forfeited.
To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. transitive verb
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. adjective
To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder. verb
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority verb
Surrendered as a penalty adjective
To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
To officially take something away from somebody, especially as a punishment Urban Dictionary
The most disgraceful thing to your human rights. Urban Dictionary
Theft, when it is carried out by the state or by other authoritarian agents. The pigs invented this word, which sounds fancy and official, so they can keep on pretending to be consistently against theft when really they're the biggest thieves of all. Urban Dictionary
The act of "nutting" or ejaculating in a victims eyes and then robbing them blind. The name is a double-entendre as you literally are "confiscating" a person's money and because it was created by a jewish man named Kahn, who loved to steal shmeckels with his eye-nut technique. Because of Kahn, the name Kahnfiscate the moneys was popularized, sadly mistyping has changed history. A very common sign of disrespect in the 17th century, however is now resurfacing due to its use in the chorus of the song "black beatles" by Rae Sremmurd. Urban Dictionary
Synonyms and Antonyms for Confiscate
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