英语词汇“confiscate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINconfiscate

Origin:

1500-1600 Latin past participle of confiscare, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + fiscus ( ➔ FISCAL)

VERB TABLE

confiscate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	confiscate
	he, she, it	confiscates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	confiscated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have confiscated
	he, she, it	has confiscated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had confiscated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will confiscate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have confiscated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am confiscating
	he, she, it	is confiscating
	you, we, they	are confiscating
Past	I, he, she, it	was confiscating
	you, we, they	were confiscating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been confiscating
	he, she, it	has been confiscating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been confiscating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be confiscating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been confiscating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

An increasing number of guns have been confiscated in schools recently.
The authorities will confiscate firearms found on a boat or plane if the owner cannot show proof of US licensing.
The group claims that billions of dollars in property and bank accounts was confiscated from Jewish businessmen in the Second World War.
Your vehicle can be confiscated if you are transporting marijuana.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Advertisers luring people into heavier and heavier reliance on cleansing products would be prosecuted and their bank accounts confiscated.
I wondered if I should have confiscated the duplicate licenses while I had the chance.
If it is confiscated the next day, a note will be left behind with information on where the items are.
Later the law was amended so that profits from such activities could be confiscated.
The box was confiscated by the governing body's technical department to undergo investigation this week.
The county has a long-standing policy of reselling confiscated weapons.
We could equip them with two-way radios, but they would be confiscated at road checks.

Longman Language Activatorto take something from someone► take

to take something out of someone's hands: · Let me take your bags -- you look exhausted.· Oh, mom, could you just take this for a second?· He took her coat, and hung it in the hall.take something from somebody: · He walked slowly across the room and took the gun from her.take something off somebody informal: · Can you take some of these books off me?

► grab/snatch

to take something from someone with a sudden violent movement: · He just grabbed my camera and ran off with it.snatch/grab something from somebody/something: · Gerry snatched her diary from the desk, and she lunged to grab it back.snatch/grab something off somebody informal: · Paul grabbed the bag of sweets off his sister and ran away with it.

► take away

to take something important from someone, such as a possession or a right, either as a punishment or in a way that is wrong or unfair: take away something: · Mom's threatened to take away my stereo if my schoolwork doesn't improve.· The new law would take away the rights of workers to go on strike.· That's stupid -- it's like teaching someone to read, then taking away all their books!take something away: · No, Eli, I'm taking it away now!take something away from somebody: · Even though Polly still needs it, the authorities have taken the wheelchair away from her.

► seize

to take something such as drugs, guns, or documents from someone who is keeping them illegally or taking them from one place to another: · Police seized 53 weapons and made 42 arrests.· Over 52,000 E-tablets hidden in a car door were seized by customs officials.· Assets worth over $1 million were seized, along with documents relating to the company's financial dealings.

► impound

to take something such as a car or an animal away from someone and keep it in a special place until they are officially allowed to have it back: · The act will give the government new rights to impound untaxed cars and crush them. · The medical officer says that the animals will be impounded while tests are carried out.· Police recovered both items, and impounded a black BMW from the murder scene.

► confiscate

to officially take something away from someone, either as a punishment or because they are not allowed to have it: · Your vehicle can be confiscated if you are transporting marijuana.· The authorities will confiscate firearms found on a boat or plane if the owner cannot show proof of US licensing. confiscate something from somebody: · The group claims that billions of dollars in property and bank accounts was confiscated from Jewish businessmen in the Second World War.

► commandeer

if the army or other military organization commandeers something such as a vehicle or a building, they take it away from the owners in order to use it in a war: · Bud's truck had been commandeered by the regiment.· The officers had commandeered every house in the area.· A paramilitary group attempted to commandeer the bus and take it to Madrid.

► deprive somebody

to take away or not let someone have their rights, advantages etc, especially in a way that seems unfair: · Under Stalin, Soviet citizens were deprived of their most basic human rights.· The boy's parents claim the school's actions have effectively deprived their son of education.· Banning the carnival will deprive law-abiding citizens of a source of culturally valuable entertainment.

► strip somebody

to completely take away someone's rights, responsibilities, or a prize they have won, especially as a punishment for doing something wrong: · The captain was stripped of his licence after the collision.· He was formally stripped of his American citizenship.· The ruling authority stripped him of his boxing title after he was convicted of importing heroin.· The court ruled that Learer's conviction did not constitute grounds for stripping her of custody of her four children.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► property

· The factory was confiscated as enemy property after the war and in 1947 Ettore Bugatti died.· They argue that there are international tribunals whose jurisdiction is to resolve the ownership of confiscated property.· Together the two confiscated property provisions are aimed at discouraging foreign investors from purchasing such property from the cash-strapped Castro government.