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. • Take

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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. Zhang Xiaoming:

   After the agreements are made, China will share intelligence with the U.S. and Australia, which will also offer information to their enforcement agencies to conduct further investigations, once law enforcement officers in the U.S. and Australia identify illegal funds, they will immediately initiate judicial procedures to freeze and confiscate those criminal proceeds in their countries.

2. Roger Quarles Mills:

   Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts and condemned to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the sunlight of happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living and to fill our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness. It comes to bring us evil - only evil - and that continually. Let us rise in our might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall never hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs.

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. Chris Barsotti:

   They're going to think this is another political approach to make it difficult to access guns or potentially confiscate guns or create barriers to access.

5. David S. McAlvaney:

   Thus perhaps the most dangerous of all socialist attacks on America in the 1990s is the onslaught to register and confiscate America's firearms. America cannot be subjugated to communism or a socialist dictatorship until Americans are first disarmed. Poland has strict gun control; so does Cambodia, Russia, and Red China. Over 100 million people were brutally slaughtered in those countries, but first they were disarmed. The danger to people when they can't own guns is far greater than any danger gun ownership can ever create.