The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confiscate \Con"fis*cate\ (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confiscated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confiscating.] 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of confiscate English)
Usage examples of "confiscating".
Henry the Eighth not only ruined the organization of the guilds, but also confiscated their properties, with even less excuse and manners, as Toulmin Smith wrote, than he had produced for confiscating the estates of the monasteries.
I am for confiscating the property of rebelstaking every slave from every damn rebel, thereby making the slave owners pay the cost of this rebellion.
Anna Carroll, in her Reply to Sumner pamphlet, had made a fuss about the provision confiscating the property of people in rebellion before the passage of the act, complaining it would be ex post facto law.
King Charles now decided to rid himself of the problem of Brittany once and for all by confiscating the dukedom from Montfort on grounds of “felony” toward his sovereign.
When this hastened flight from the land, the nobles tried to prevent it by confiscating goods and by other penalties that increased the peasants’ hostility.
When the olivium chaser Pandora’s Box had appeared to pick up a work force of released prisoners for its mining operations at the asteroids, Billy had simply taken over that asset too, with great joy at the irony of confiscating a ship he had once owned under an assumed name.
They are definitely confiscating harvested olivium and reintegrating it into the Quake Moon’s unstable core.
There's no question that casual drug users fuel the underground narcotics economy, but confiscating private boatswhether it's the Ark Royal or a leaky dinghywon't change a thing.
Officers say they aren't confiscating enough crack to use in big drug stings.
They marched randomly into Jewish homes looting or confiscating all their belongings.
Unless the government was forced into the drastic move of confiscating private food stores for redistribution, at least his wife and their children wouldn't run the risk of severe rationing that the unemployed townsfolk could well face.
And POPPA's land-snatchers just keep confiscating farms and 'restoring' them to the wild, while screaming at us to meet those damned Subbie-driven quotas.
He now felt that if a regiment of enemy troops explored the locality, as they were likely to do, there was small chance of them discovering and either confiscating or destroying the cache on which his continued liberty might depend.