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confiscate
verb as in steal; seize
Example Sentences
In general, the occupying German forces and their collaborators confiscated the furniture of deported Jews.
"I am pressing government for action, including new powers for the police to stop anyone under 18 carrying a catapult without good reason and to confiscate it," he said.
The flotilla's cargo of aid was confiscated and humanitarian access to Gaza has not improved but Benedetta Scuderi, an MEP for the Green Left Alliance, still calls the trip a "huge achievement".
That gun was confiscated, leading her to purchase another gun.
Just days before Sunday's pivotal parliamentary elections, Moldovan police said they had confiscated weapons and explosives in raids across the country.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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