Synonyms for confiscate
ˈkɒn fəˌskeɪt, kənˈfɪs keɪtcon·fis·cate

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1. confiscate

   Synonyms:
   appropriate, deny, refuse, resume, retain, seize, withhold

   Antonyms:
   allot, appoint, apportion, assign, award, destine, distribute, divide, give, grant, mete out, portion out, select, set apart

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1. confiscate

   Synonyms:
   seize, escheat, dis, possess, sequestrate, distrain

   Antonyms:
   restore, release, refund

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1. confiscate, forfeit, forfeitedverb

   surrendered as a penalty

   Synonyms:
   forfeit, forfeited

   Antonyms:
   won

2. impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seizeverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   clutch, get hold of, tie, set apart, arrogate, sequester, capture, withdraw, attach, prehend, seclude, isolate, impound, assume, pound, keep apart, conquer, usurp, bind, grab, sequestrate, take over, seize, appropriate, bond

   Antonyms:
   won

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1. confiscateverb

   Synonyms:
   cause to be forfeited, condemn to public use

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1. List of paraphrases for "confiscate":

   confiscates, forfeit, seize, confiscation, expropriate

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How to use confiscate in a sentence?

1. Steve Kraus:

   Unfortunately it's a common problem in just about every country in the world, when you confiscate condoms, studies again and again show that condoms are less likely to be used. Commercial sex is going to take place in more risky venues, where the women selling sex are more vulnerable to violence, extortion, robbery, assault, gang rape.

2. Mary Ziegler:

   You would have essentially on the ballot the question of both Comstock enforcement and also potentially Comstock repeal, do I think, under a Trump presidency, they’re going to confiscate surgical gloves because they could be adapted for use in abortion? No, I don’t think that’s probably going to happen.

3. Mick Zais:

   The Commission will not be looking at ways to confiscate those weapons or abrogate the second amendment, but what we will be doing is looking at specific age limits for the purchase of specific kinds of weapons.

4. John Maynard Keynes:

   The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

5. Dudley Brown:

   The main objective of these students is to ban firearms completely, and confiscate the firearms of law-abiding Americans, we will oppose them at every step.