0 If the police impound something that belongs to you, they take it away because you have broken the law:
1 to take possession of something by legal right:
2 to take something away from someone because you have the legal right to do so:
High-value vehicles impounded as a result of non-payment of vehicle excise duty and not reclaimed are always auctioned.
Secondly, there is the impounding reservoir; and then, thinly, there is the use of rivers.
The level of impounded water will be between the present high water level and the present low water level.
I understand that most of the water undertakers who are extracting and impounding water will be pumping on some 200 days.
The coroner was advised that tape recordings of all telephone and radio conversations had been impounded and could be made available.
We now have sophisticated means of cleaning up water, particularly if it is impounded.
Secondly, and in consequence of that, shipowners demand the faster turn-rounds at estuarial port facilities which do not rely on impounded docks.
The total number of livestock impounded was about 3,500 cattle and about 6,000 sheep and goats.