confiscate
verb
[ ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt ]
• take or seize (someone's property) with authority.
• "the guards confiscated his camera"
Similar:
impound,
seize,
commandeer,
requisition,
appropriate,
expropriate,
take possession of,
sequester,
sequestrate,
take away,
take over,
take,
annex,
distrain,
attach,
disseize,
poind,
Origin:
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’.
