Dictionary Entry
confiscate
confiscate is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
- 2transitive verb
To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
- 3verb
take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
"The FBI seized the drugs"
"The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"
- 4adjective
surrendered as a penalty
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