confiscate
confiscate 英 [ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt] 美 [ˈkɑnfɪskeɪt]
vt. 没收；充公
进行时:confiscating 过去式:confiscated 过去分词:confiscated 第三人称单数:confiscates
- To confiscate means to take away temporarily for security or legal reasons. It implies an act by an authority upon one of less power. If you use your cell phone in class, the teacher might confiscate it for the day.
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- vt. 没收；充公
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1. Their land was confiscated after the war.
他们的土地在战后被没收。
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2. The customs officials confiscated the contraband.
海关官员没收了走私物品。
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3. The police said the car had been confiscated from criminals.
警方称，这辆车是从罪犯手中没收的。
- confiscate (v.) 1550s, "to appropriate for or adjudge to be forfeit to the treasury," in reference to the goods or estate of a traitor or criminal, from Latin confiscatus, past participle of confiscare, from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + fiscus "public treasury," originally "money basket, wicker basket" (see fiscal). Caxton (late 15c.) Englished French confisquer as confisk. The broader sense "take from another by or as if by authority" is attested by 1819. Related: Confiscated; confiscating.
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