0 past simple and past participle of impound
1 If the police impound something that belongs to you, they take it away because you have broken the law:
They have impounded this land, re-made it into their far-off recollected pasts.
The influence of plant size, structure and impounded leaf litter on arthropod diversity is discussed.
It may be that a penance of compulsory almsgiving was a way of keeping control of how impounded wealth was spent.
These are indeed, canal irrigation systems, with the exception that here the canal water is impounded into above-surface tanks.
The system has been 'dynamised' - time has been impounded.
The main distinction between these habitats and water impounded by leaf axils is the presence of secreted plant fluids that digest organic material falling into the plant.
Differences in bromeliad leaf turnover rate have implications for the time scale for the return of impounded nutrients to the forest floor and developmental time for invertebrates.
The level of impounded water will be between the present high water level and the present low water level.