Synonyms for confiscate
ˈkɒn fəˌskeɪt, kənˈfɪs keɪtcon·fis·cate

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1. confiscate

   Synonyms:
   appropriate, deny, refuse, resume, retain, seize, withhold

   Antonyms:
   allot, appoint, apportion, assign, award, destine, distribute, divide, give, grant, mete out, portion out, select, set apart

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1. confiscate

   Synonyms:
   seize, escheat, dis, possess, sequestrate, distrain

   Antonyms:
   restore, release, refund

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1. confiscate, forfeit, forfeitedverb

   surrendered as a penalty

   Synonyms:
   forfeit, forfeited

   Antonyms:
   won

2. impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seizeverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   clutch, get hold of, tie, set apart, arrogate, sequester, capture, withdraw, attach, prehend, seclude, isolate, impound, assume, pound, keep apart, conquer, usurp, bind, grab, sequestrate, take over, seize, appropriate, bond

   Antonyms:
   won

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1. confiscateverb

   Synonyms:
   cause to be forfeited, condemn to public use

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1. List of paraphrases for "confiscate":

   confiscates, forfeit, seize, confiscation, expropriate

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1. Bari Abdelatif:

   Sometimes they follow the woman home and detain her father, or they confiscate her ID and tell her to come back with her father to pick it up.

2. Katherine Rappel:

   I’m a very pro-law enforcement person, but I don’t think that my brothers and sisters at the Illinois State Police should be allowed to confiscate firearms for basically what are procedural violations, it says they can take away your firearm if your FOID card expired.

3. Mary Ziegler:

   You would have essentially on the ballot the question of both Comstock enforcement and also potentially Comstock repeal, do I think, under a Trump presidency, they’re going to confiscate surgical gloves because they could be adapted for use in abortion? No, I don’t think that’s probably going to happen.

4. Dudley Brown:

   The main objective of these students is to ban firearms completely, and confiscate the firearms of law-abiding Americans, we will oppose them at every step.

5. Chris Barsotti:

   They're going to think this is another political approach to make it difficult to access guns or potentially confiscate guns or create barriers to access.