confiscate

English

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Etymology

From Latin confiscare (“to declare property of the fisc”).

Verb

confiscate (third-person singular simple present confiscates, present participle confiscating, simple past and past participle confiscated)

1. (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

   In schools it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.

Synonyms

• (take possession of or lay claim to): appropriate, arrogate, commandeer, expropriate, requisition, usurp, steal, rob

Translations

take possession of by force

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: բռնագրավել (hy) (bṙnagravel), առգրավել (hy) (aṙgravel)
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: конфискувам (konfiskuvam)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: confiscar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒收 (zh), 没收 (zh) (mòshōu)

• Czech: zabavit (cs)
• Danish: konfiskere
• Dutch: confisqueren (nl)
• Esperanto: konfiski (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: leggja hald á, draga inn, taka frá
• Finnish: takavarikoida (fi)
• French: confisquer (fr)
• Galician: confiscar (gl)
• German: konfiszieren (de)
• Greek: κατάσχω (el) (katáscho)
• Hebrew: החרים‎ (hekhrím)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: elkoboz (hu)
• Icelandic: gera upptækan
• Ido: konfiskar (io)
• Indonesian: menyita (id)

• Interlingue: confiscar
• Irish: gabh seilbh ar, coigistigh
• Italian: confiscare (it)
• Japanese: 没収する (ぼっしゅうする, bosshū-suru)
• Khmer: ដកហូតយក (dɑɑk hoot yɔɔk)
• Korean: 몰수하다 (ko) (molsu-hada)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: dest danîn ser (ku)

• Norman: confistchi (Jersey)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: ضبط کردن‎ (fa) (zabt kardan)
• Polish: konfiskować (pl)
• Portuguese: confiscar (pt)
• Romanian: confisca (ro)
• Russian: конфискова́ть (ru) pf (konfiskovátʹ), изыма́ть (ru) impf (izymátʹ), изъя́ть (ru) pf (izʺjátʹ)
• Slovak: zhabať
• Slovene: zasegati, zaseči pf
• Spanish: decomisar (es), confiscar (es)
• Swedish: konfiskera (sv)
• Telugu: జప్తు చేయు (japtu cēyu)
• Thai: ยึด (th) (yʉ́t)
• Turkish: el koymak (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: قبضے میں لینا‎
• Vietnamese: tịch thâu
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can

See also

• confiscation

Adjective

confiscate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit
   • Shakespeare

     Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.

   • Shakespeare

     Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.

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Italian

Verb

confiscate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confiscare
2. second-person plural imperative of confiscare
3. feminine plural of confiscato

Anagrams

• confacesti
• sfioccante

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Latin

Verb

confiscāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of confiscō