0 past simple and past participle of confiscate --
1 to take a possession away from someone when you have the right to do so, usually as a punishment and often for a limited period, after which it is returned to the owner: --
At the collapse of the revolt copies were confiscated.
The lists of the goods confiscated give some indication of the extent of the trade occurring in the countryside.
The printer was not sent for, copies were not confiscated.
According to them, the country was bankrupted by an unnecessary war, and upright citizens' lands were confiscated to form unproductive co-operatives.
Two days ago the psychologist was arrested and his tapes were confiscated.
The police immediately arrested the ringleaders, and the following day three rightist papers, which had published the pamphlet, were shut down and their editions confiscated.
Besides initiating lawsuits to regain their estates, royalists also raised loans to purchase from the state confiscated lands, thereby enabling them to maintain their livings.
Generally, the higher the point probability for the price offered, the lower is the confiscated share of the grant.
