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

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. confiscate

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

    Antonyms:
    restore, release, refund

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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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Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 1 vote

  1. confiscateverb

    Synonyms:
    cause to be forfeited, condemn to public use

PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "confiscate":

    confiscates, forfeit, seize, confiscation, expropriate

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#248023arrogate
#310890seclude

How to use confiscate in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. John Maynard Keynes:

    The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

  5. 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.


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