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单词 confiscate
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confiscate

verb
/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they confiscate
/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪt/
he / she / it confiscates
/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪts/
/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪts/
past simple confiscated
/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪd/
/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪd/
past participle confiscated
/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪd/
/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪd/
-ing form confiscating
/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪŋ/
/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪŋ/
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  1. confiscate something to officially take something away from somebody, especially as a punishment
    • Their land was confiscated after the war.
    • The teacher threatened to confiscate their phones if they kept using them in class.
    • Our belongings were temporarily confiscated.
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryConfiscate is used with these nouns as the object:
    • passport
    • property
    See full entry
    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin confiscat- ‘put away in a chest, consigned to the public treasury’, from the verb confiscare, based on con- ‘together’ + fiscus ‘chest, treasury’.
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