confiscate
confiscate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 37 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.
- 2.To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accuse
- attainder
- attaint
- attaintment
- attainture
- bring
- cast
- condemn
- condemnation
- condemnatory
- condemned
- convict
- conviction
- damn
- damnation
- damnatory
- death
- disapprove
- doom
- failure
- find
- guilty
- home
- judgment
- nonsuit
- pass
- penalty
- proscribe
- proscription
- self-convicted
- sentence
- sequestrate
- sign
- stand
- the
- unpitied
- warrant
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is confiscate.
- What is seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak called?
- What is to seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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