Confiscate in a sentence as a verb

They confiscate your computer and phones, and they beat you up a bit.

" This is a stupid thing to do. I would have thought the police might confiscate his t-shirt.

Let's use draconian laws, and bring in the DEA so we can confiscate it all", is insane.

The de facto power to confiscate cameras in case the ****** wasn't well planned.

Can they confiscate Apple's cash reserves to help pay off the national debt?

Fast-forward to almost a year later and the police show up on his door to confiscate the laptop.

Whatever assets you have the federal government will be able to confiscate if the need is dire enough.

Confiscate in a sentence as an adjective

It could simply isolate the most important nodes, locate them, and confiscate the equipment or pressure, arrest, or pay off their operators.

The ability to tax retroactively is the ability to jail anyone and confiscate everything they have for any or no reason.

Even after the horrors of 9/11, I am still alive; full of vitality, love, sex and, later tonight, that large ***** rubber-banded to the water you are about to confiscate from me.

Even though the imitation infringes on both copyright and trademarks, they can't, by US Law, confiscate the watch flat out by refusing to return the watch to it's owner as that is theft.

Some workers on other sites say employers routinely confiscate passports and refuse to issue ID cards, in effect reducing them to the status of illegal aliens.

If my local bank gets busted for some shady-*** ****, and the Feds confiscate some family heirloom along with all the bricks of heroin from the bank vault, what should we demand from our government in that case?And if we're not likely to get what we feel entitled to demand, what are our realistic options for doing something about that?

Confiscate definitions

verb

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"

See also: impound attach sequester seize

adjective

surrendered as a penalty

See also: forfeit forfeited