Meaning of "confiscate" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONFISCATE

From Latin confiscāre to seize for the public treasury, from fiscus basket, treasury.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CONFISCATE

confiscate  [ˈkɒnfɪˌskeɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFISCATE

Confiscate is a verb and can also act as an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb confiscate in English.

WHAT DOES CONFISCATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Confiscation

Confiscation, from the Latin confiscatio 'joining to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury' is a legal seizure by a government or other public authority. The word is also used, popularly, of spoliation under legal forms, or of any seizure of property as punishment or in enforcement of the law.

Definition of confiscate in the English dictionary

The first definition of confiscate in the dictionary is to seize, esp for public use and esp by way of a penalty. Other definition of confiscate is seized or confiscated; forfeit. Confiscate is also having lost or been deprived of property through confiscation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CONFISCATE

PRESENT

Present

I confiscate

you confiscate

he/she/it confiscates

we confiscate

you confiscate

they confiscate

Present continuous

I am confiscating

you are confiscating

he/she/it is confiscating

we are confiscating

you are confiscating

they are confiscating

Present perfect

I have confiscated

you have confiscated

he/she/it has confiscated

we have confiscated

you have confiscated

they have confiscated

Present perfect continuous

I have been confiscating

you have been confiscating

he/she/it has been confiscating

we have been confiscating

you have been confiscating

they have been confiscating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I confiscated

you confiscated

he/she/it confiscated

we confiscated

you confiscated

they confiscated

Past continuous

I was confiscating

you were confiscating

he/she/it was confiscating

we were confiscating

you were confiscating

they were confiscating

Past perfect

I had confiscated

you had confiscated

he/she/it had confiscated

we had confiscated

you had confiscated

they had confiscated

Past perfect continuous

I had been confiscating

you had been confiscating

he/she/it had been confiscating

we had been confiscating

you had been confiscating

they had been confiscating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will confiscate

you will confiscate

he/she/it will confiscate

we will confiscate

you will confiscate

they will confiscate

Future continuous

I will be confiscating

you will be confiscating

he/she/it will be confiscating

we will be confiscating

you will be confiscating

they will be confiscating

Future perfect

I will have confiscated

you will have confiscated

he/she/it will have confiscated

we will have confiscated

you will have confiscated

they will have confiscated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been confiscating

you will have been confiscating

he/she/it will have been confiscating

we will have been confiscating

you will have been confiscating

they will have been confiscating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would confiscate

you would confiscate

he/she/it would confiscate

we would confiscate

you would confiscate

they would confiscate

Conditional continuous

I would be confiscating

you would be confiscating

he/she/it would be confiscating

we would be confiscating

you would be confiscating

they would be confiscating

Conditional perfect

I would have confiscate

you would have confiscate

he/she/it would have confiscate

we would have confiscate

you would have confiscate

they would have confiscate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been confiscating

you would have been confiscating

he/she/it would have been confiscating

we would have been confiscating

you would have been confiscating

they would have been confiscating

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you confiscate
we let´s confiscate
you confiscate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to confiscate

Past participle

confiscated

Present Participle

confiscating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «CONFISCATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «confiscate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of confiscate

appropriate · commandeer · expropriate · impound · seize · sequester · sequestrate

TRANSLATION OF CONFISCATE

Find out the translation of confiscate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of confiscate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confiscate» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 没收
• Translator English - Spanish: confiscar
• English: confiscate
• Translator English - Hindi: जब्त
• Translator English - Arabic: يُصَادِرُ
• Translator English - Russian: конфисковать
• Translator English - Portuguese: confiscar
• Translator English - Bengali: বাজেয়াপ্ত করা
• Translator English - French: confisquer
• Translator English - Malay: Merampas
• Translator English - German: beschlagnahmen
• Translator English - Japanese: 没収する
• Translator English - Korean: 압수하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Ngrampog
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tịch thu
• Translator English - Tamil: பறிமுதல்
• Translator English - Marathi: जप्त करणे
• Translator English - Turkish: el koyma
• Translator English - Italian: confiscare
• Translator English - Polish: skonfiskować
• Translator English - Ukrainian: конфіскувати
• Translator English - Romanian: a confisca
• Translator English - Greek: κατάσχω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: konfiskeer
• Translator English - Swedish: beslagta
• Translator English - Norwegian: konfiskere

4 QUOTES WITH «CONFISCATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word confiscate.

1

Dick Cavett

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

2

John Maynard Keynes

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

3

Peter Schiff

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

4

Hunter Tylo

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFISCATE»

Discover the use of confiscate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confiscate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy, and Burn All ...

Reuchlin did not stop anti-Semitism in the Reformation by either Catholics or Protestants, but he stemmed the advance of those vowed to wipe Judaism out in Europe and began the long, slow movement in the West to appreciate and learn what ...

Johann Reuchlin, Peter Wortsman, 2000

Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy, and Burn All ...

A late fifteenth- early sixteenth-century theologian is asked to comment on this recommendation by the emperor of Germany. Brings to light a valuable moment in Reformation history.

Johannes Reuchlin, Peter Wortsman, 2004

Confiscate the Property and Free the Slaves of Rebels

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

Isaac Newton Arnold, 2010

The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party: Documents ...

II) The Different Views of the Provincial Committee Members A) The Peasant Question — The Land Question 1) Zedong 's View: (i) To confiscate the land, we must have targets. Since most landlords in China are small (there are only a few big ...

Tony Saich, Benjamin Yang, 1995

The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and ...

Now if Congress can confiscate the real estate of one in rebellion against his government, of which there can be no doubt, I think it elear they could also confiscate the slave property of the same party ; and it seems to me to follow that  ...

John Minor Botts, 1866

The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the ...

The fourteenth was the licentiate Anthony de Herezuelo, a lawyer dwelling at Toro ; who, after he was proclaimed heretic and his goods confiscate, was condemned to be burned; and moreover had his mouth stopped, for that he should not ...

John Foxe, George Townsend, 1846

The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and ...

Now if Congress can confiscate the real estate of one in rebellion against his government, of which there can be no doubt, ... confiscate the slave property of the same party; and it seems to me to follow that, if the President can confiscate the ...

John Minor BOTTS, 1866

The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period

Then was called from her seat, fifteenth in order, Katharine Romain, dwelling in Pedrosa ; who, receiving the like sentence, was condemned to be burned, and all her goods confiscate. 16. Hernand de Herrera, burned. The sixteenth was the ...

Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...

comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose. CONFIRMATION. CONFISCATE.

Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1845

Limitations on the Treaty-making Power Under the ...

When Judge Chase, in the quotation above made from his opinion, page 233, declares that if Virginia by her Act of October 20th, 1777, had a right to confiscate British debts, yet did not exercise the right, "the plaintiff in error must have ...

Henry St. George Tucker, 1915

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFISCATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confiscate is used in the context of the following news items.

Parliament passes law to confiscate property gained through …

It goes a notch higher than the 2009 Anti Corruption Act by granting the government the power to confiscate properties invested abroad by ... «NTV Uganda, Jul 15»

Karen Selick: The law will confiscate your property if you can't make …

Over the past 14 years, eight of Canada's 10 provinces (the exceptions are Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador) have ... «National Post, Jul 15»

Police report on firework-related calls, prepare confiscate fireworks

Police report on firework-related calls, prepare confiscate fireworks. Tools. Print this article; Email this article. By A Willson. Story Published: Jul ... «Newscenter1.tv, Jul 15»

Las Cruces officials confiscate $2K in illegal fireworks

Las Cruces law enforcement officials confiscated $2,000 worth of illegal fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend. (Courtesy photo). «Las Cruces Sun-News, Jul 15»

Folly of spying on school lunch boxes

GOVERNMENT guidelines say teachers can confiscate and destroy items from children's lunch boxes if they deem them unhealthy. «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»

Four-legged crime busters confiscate millions in drugs

Constable Bungeni Mabunda and his police sniffer dog, Hunter, search for narcotics at the international arrivals section of OR Tambo Airport. «Times LIVE, Jul 15»

Dennis police, firefighters confiscate $8K in fireworks

It is mandatory for law enforcement to confiscate fireworks. A person in possession of fireworks in the commonwealth cannot be arrested, but ... «Cape Cod Today, Jul 15»

Pagan prisoner makes complaint after officers confiscate …

A Pagan prisoner is demanding his spell-book back after it was confiscated by jail wardens. John Chadwick, an inmate at privately-run HMP ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

German authorities confiscate Nazi tank, other WWII weapons from …

BERLIN - Authorities seized a 45-ton Panther tank, a flak cannon and multiple other World War II-era military weapons in a raid on a ... «CP24 Toronto's Breaking News, Jul 15»

Police confiscate WW2 tank hidden in cellar

Police searched a villa in a wealthy suburb of Kiel on Wednesday and found a Second World War tank, a torpedo and other weaponry in the ... «The Local.de, Jul 15»