confiscating
Meaning of confiscating
- 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 confiscating
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of confiscating
con-fis-cat-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- confiscating is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
confiscating synonyms
Meaning seize and take legal custody of (something, especially a vehicle, goods, or documents) because of an infringement of a law:
Meaning (of the police or another authority) take possession of (something) by warrant or legal right:
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 another term for sequestrate:
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 seize (a person or property) by legal authority:
Meaning dispossess (someone) of land or property:
Meaning distrain or impound (a person's property):
confiscating antonyms
Meaning come or go back to a place or person:
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