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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: confiscated adj : taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain [syn: {appropriated}, {condemned}, {confiscate}, {seized}, {taken over}]
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