confiscating

Meaning of confiscating

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. 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:

impound

Meaning (of the police or another authority) take possession of (something) by warrant or legal right:

seize

Meaning officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes:

commandeer

Meaning demand the use or supply of (something) by official order:

requisition

Meaning take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission:

appropriate

Meaning (of the state or an authority) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit:

expropriate

Meaning another term for sequestrate:

sequester

Meaning take forcible possession of (something); confiscate:

sequestrate

Meaning remove (someone or something) from a particular place:

take

Meaning add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document:

annex

Meaning seize (someone's property) in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed:

distrain

Meaning seize (a person or property) by legal authority:

attach

Meaning dispossess (someone) of land or property:

disseize

Meaning distrain or impound (a person's property):

poind

confiscating antonyms

Meaning come or go back to a place or person:

return

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