confiscate. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

confiscate

SYLLABICATION:	con·fis·cate
PRONUNCIATION:	knf-skt
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See synonyms at appropriate.
ADJECTIVE:	(knf-skt, kn-fskt)1. Seized by a government; appropriated. 2. Having lost property through confiscation.
ETYMOLOGY:	Latin cnfiscre, cnfisct : com-, com- + fiscus, treasury.
OTHER FORMS:	confis·cation —NOUN confis·cator —NOUN con·fisca·tory (kn-fsk-tôr, -tr) —ADJECTIVE


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