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Definition of impound in English: impoundverb ɪmˈpaʊndɪmˈpaʊnd [with object]1Seize and take legal custody of (something, especially a vehicle, goods, or documents) because of an infringement of a law. 没收，扣留（尤指车辆、货物或文件） vehicles parked where they cause an obstruction will be impounded 引起阻塞的停靠车辆将被扣留。 Example sentencesExamples - The raccoon was taken into custody and the vehicle was impounded.
- The taxi operators accuse government of failing to issue permits to taxi operators, and then impounding their vehicles for not having permits.
- Their driver's licenses have been seized and their vehicles were impounded for 48 hours.
- The truck and the motorcycle were impounded as vehicles used in illegal activities.
- Tough new regulations giving the Vehicle Inspectorate powers to impound heavy goods vehicles operated without a licence are now in force with the industry's backing.
- This is the question irate travellers who have their cosmetics and wines impounded by security and customs personnel at Johannesburg's Oliver Tambo International Airport ask.
- More than 400 vehicles were impounded by the police over one weekend for traffic violations, including speeding.
- He has been unable to stick to the agreed payments because he said he was unable to work while his lorry was impounded and because mounting legal costs for his appeal and the travel costs to and from Greece.
- Police impounded the vehicle and forensic and DNA tests are being performed to identify the origin of the blood.
- Other times they would just impound our goods for selling food in the complex,’ she recalls.
- Subsequently HM Customs and Excise impounded the car on 15 September until 15 November.
- Initiative B was intended to remove the profit incentive from forfeitures and prevent police from zealously impounding cars or seizing property of innocent third parties in criminal cases.
- Cola said vehicles are only impounded and kept at police stations when there are difficulties in arranging for payments.
- If any watercraft owner, master, operator or managing agent fails to pay moorage or other service fees, a boat may be presumed to be abandoned, and may also be impounded by the Port.
- The amendments broaden the range of motor vehicles exempt from taxes to include unroadworthy motor vehicles and motor vehicles impounded by the tax administration or judicial authorities.
- The research added: ‘At present, police do not have the legal authority to impound these vehicles.’
- Under the law, police can impound the cars and the court can permanently confiscate a vehicle if it is used to commit a second offence.
- Two light goods vehicles were impounded and 1,800 litres of illicit oil seized.
- In that case the police impounded a vehicle which was being operated without a proper validation sticker and by a person for whom there was an outstanding warrant for driving without insurance.
- The policeman was checking and impounding the vehicles in public interest.
Synonyms confiscate, appropriate, take possession of, seize, commandeer, expropriate, requisition, sequester, sequestrate, take Law distrain, disseize, attach Scottish Law poind 2Shut up (domestic animals) in a pound or enclosure. 将（家畜）关入牲畜栏 the cattle were rounded up and impounded Example sentencesExamples - Figures from the latest report by Waterford County Council revealed that of 681 dogs impounded by the Pound last year, just eight were re-claimed and 21 re-homed.
- The fish were to be impounded and handed over to the SPCA for safekeeping, Singh said.
- Twenty-one animals were impounded for being on the roads, 71 drivers were summonsed for not wearing safety belts and five drivers were summonsed for talking on their cellular phones while driving.
- Unfortunately, some horse owners find themselves unable to properly care for their animals, and the animals must be impounded.
- Geraldton City Council and local vets are joining forces to reduce the number of lost and impounded animals.
- Nowadays, as a conservation measure, local councils have imposed curfews for domestic cats and begun impounding felines found wandering the streets at night.
- The chicken was impounded by food safety officials after tests showed it contained nitrofurans and chloramphenicol.
- At the moment, a lot of the costs of dogs being impounded and so on are borne by those who pay their rates.
- In addition, every citizen has the right to pick up a stray pet and have it impounded by the Animal Control Officers.
- Territorial authorities will have the power to impound dogs charged for dangerous offences, while their owners await prosecution proceedings.
- You become an activist when your dog is impounded, or a freeway is built past your house, or your child gets a disease because of pollution or sour gas.
- The following is a listing of the dogs currently impounded at the Linn County Dog Control facility.
- Up to 30 dogs a week are impounded by Newry and Mourne District Council throughout the course of the year.
- Up to 30 dogs a week are picked up or abandoned and impounded by the council, and once they're in, they have five days for their original or a new owner to pick them up before the contract vet is called in.
- It makes no sense to impound stray animals if there is no place to keep them.
- People had to licence their dogs and keep them under control on their own property, otherwise the dogs would be impounded and most likely put down.
- Enviromental wardens were called to the scene and the dogs were impounded in a kennel in Blackburn.
- One proposal was changing the amount of time dogs were impounded from 72 hours to one week.
- Council Local Laws Officers authorised under Keeping, Control and Impounding of Animals Local Law 2003, have impounded the animals listed below.
- On Saturday, 13 stray cattle were impounded near Berlin after a motorist swerved to avoid them and rolled his vehicle.
Synonyms pen in, shut up/in, fence in, coop up, hem in, box in, hedge in, rail in cage, enclose, confine, kettle North American corral - 2.1 Lock up (someone)
扣押（某人） almost forgotten were the poor unfortunates impounded in the prison Example sentencesExamples - One week we're impounded, and one week we're not.
Synonyms lock up, incarcerate, imprison, confine, intern, immure, hold captive, hold prisoner, put under lock and key informal put behind bars
3(of a dam) hold back (water) （水坝）拦（水）；蓄（水） it will impound a reservoir 130 miles long Example sentencesExamples - Pakistan's fear is that the project would impound the Chenab waters within India and thus deprive Pakistan what is exclusively its.
- At a cost of £26 million, the marina project will initially require significant civil engineering work to create the development land and impound water within the marina.
- There are no mountain gorges on the Euphrates in Syria and the few places suitable for even the shallow impounding of water have already been utilized: the Tishreen Dam, the Thawrah Dam, and the Ba'ath Dam.
- TLDP III alone will impound water in a reservoir and submerge 156.49 hectares.
- A dam is an artificial barrier constructed across a stream channel to impound water.
- The Corps' Yazoo Pumps plan would drain water impounded by levees during high stages on the Mississippi River.
- In certain situations decreases in soil grade can lead to the impounding of water at or near the soil surface.
- This topography limits Iraq's ability to impound the waters of the Euphrates behind high dams; consequently, they empty into the Gulf without being put to use.
- Dams could both drop water and impound it, and multipurpose dams after World War II seemed self justifying.
- Indeed, the dams which impound the headwaters release a weekly dose of ‘compensation flow’, which delivers at least one artificial spate for your holiday, even with the sun beating down.
- Birds love water, and wildlife authorities are planning to create a few more ponds inside the Guindy National Park to impound rainwater more effectively.
- When the Three Gorges Dam begins to impound the waters of the Yangtze River in south central China later this year, dozens of the mountains and other elevated areas upstream will become islands.
- If Yellowstone's waters had been dammed, two iconic national parks would have succumbed to resource development, and it would have been far easier to impound water in all national parks.
- The effluent gets blended with the floods impounded by the dam and the water quality becomes slightly improved.
- There was speculation that Yorkshire Water's impounding reservoir in Boltby Forest, a mile from the village and 300 ft higher, had burst its dam and contributed to the flash flood.
- Massive undersea landslides and the breakage of ice or sediment dams impounding large lakes are terrestrial processes that lead to release of water.
- I really thought that a team of top Central officials and water experts would be scurrying about in the two States, visiting the areas where the crop was wilting and where the impounded water was standing.
- It would all depend on whether the water impounded by the landslip leaked through slowly or the blockage gave way suddenly due to pressure.
- Heavy downpours during recent months caused impounded water to rise faster than the spillways could cope and they collapsed Sept.12, forcing 1,000 families to flee the area.
- Just before the locks and dams impounded water, timber was clear-cut and the remaining stump fields are so hazardous that even avid fishermen avoid them.
Derivativesadjective Unlike criminals, motorists have impoundable cars and plenty of identifying numbers and paperwork that make them more likely to pay fines. Example sentencesExamples - The violation is an impoundable offense under R.A. 4136.
noun Victims have described the cowboy car impounders as ‘swarthy and threatening’ and some have paid cash in full rather than face their wrath. Example sentencesExamples - The impounder may sell the animal if the owner fails to appear within thirty days and claim it, but must return it when the owner appears and compensates the impounder for the damage and for the expense of keeping and advertising the animal.
noun If your pet should wander off in search of a mate, you may be faced with paying fines and impoundment costs or worse should your pet be injured while roaming for a mate. Example sentencesExamples - Some of the impoundments were lined with plastic, which flapped over the edge of the dirt embankment like a garbage bag inside a trash can.
- This trip visited a 300-acre area of landfill, fresh water tidal marsh, and dredge impoundments that is bordered by the Delaware River, Pennsauken Creek, and Route 73.
- The papers state the obvious, such as loss of licence and impoundment of vehicle, as well as court dates.
- Of even more importance to freshwater fishing, and particularly dams or impoundments, is the barometric pressure.
Rhymesabound, aground, around, astound, bound, compound, confound, dumbfound, expound, found, ground, hound, interwound, mound, pound, profound, propound, redound, round, sound, stoneground, surround, theatre-in-the-round (US theater-in-the-round), underground, wound Definition of impound in US English: impoundverbɪmˈpaʊndimˈpound [with object]1Seize and take legal custody of (something, especially a vehicle, goods, or documents) because of an infringement of a law or regulation. 没收，扣留（尤指车辆、货物或文件） vehicles parked where they cause an obstruction will be impounded 引起阻塞的停靠车辆将被扣留。 Example sentencesExamples - If any watercraft owner, master, operator or managing agent fails to pay moorage or other service fees, a boat may be presumed to be abandoned, and may also be impounded by the Port.
- This is the question irate travellers who have their cosmetics and wines impounded by security and customs personnel at Johannesburg's Oliver Tambo International Airport ask.
- The raccoon was taken into custody and the vehicle was impounded.
- The research added: ‘At present, police do not have the legal authority to impound these vehicles.’
- Two light goods vehicles were impounded and 1,800 litres of illicit oil seized.
- Initiative B was intended to remove the profit incentive from forfeitures and prevent police from zealously impounding cars or seizing property of innocent third parties in criminal cases.
- The taxi operators accuse government of failing to issue permits to taxi operators, and then impounding their vehicles for not having permits.
- Subsequently HM Customs and Excise impounded the car on 15 September until 15 November.
- Other times they would just impound our goods for selling food in the complex,’ she recalls.
- In that case the police impounded a vehicle which was being operated without a proper validation sticker and by a person for whom there was an outstanding warrant for driving without insurance.
- Police impounded the vehicle and forensic and DNA tests are being performed to identify the origin of the blood.
- Cola said vehicles are only impounded and kept at police stations when there are difficulties in arranging for payments.
- The truck and the motorcycle were impounded as vehicles used in illegal activities.
- The amendments broaden the range of motor vehicles exempt from taxes to include unroadworthy motor vehicles and motor vehicles impounded by the tax administration or judicial authorities.
- The policeman was checking and impounding the vehicles in public interest.
- Under the law, police can impound the cars and the court can permanently confiscate a vehicle if it is used to commit a second offence.
- Their driver's licenses have been seized and their vehicles were impounded for 48 hours.
- More than 400 vehicles were impounded by the police over one weekend for traffic violations, including speeding.
- He has been unable to stick to the agreed payments because he said he was unable to work while his lorry was impounded and because mounting legal costs for his appeal and the travel costs to and from Greece.
- Tough new regulations giving the Vehicle Inspectorate powers to impound heavy goods vehicles operated without a licence are now in force with the industry's backing.
Synonyms confiscate, appropriate, take possession of, seize, commandeer, expropriate, requisition, sequester, sequestrate, take 2Shut up (domestic animals) in a pound or enclosure. 将（家畜）关入牲畜栏 Example sentencesExamples - Territorial authorities will have the power to impound dogs charged for dangerous offences, while their owners await prosecution proceedings.
- At the moment, a lot of the costs of dogs being impounded and so on are borne by those who pay their rates.
- The chicken was impounded by food safety officials after tests showed it contained nitrofurans and chloramphenicol.
- Unfortunately, some horse owners find themselves unable to properly care for their animals, and the animals must be impounded.
- Figures from the latest report by Waterford County Council revealed that of 681 dogs impounded by the Pound last year, just eight were re-claimed and 21 re-homed.
- The following is a listing of the dogs currently impounded at the Linn County Dog Control facility.
- It makes no sense to impound stray animals if there is no place to keep them.
- Council Local Laws Officers authorised under Keeping, Control and Impounding of Animals Local Law 2003, have impounded the animals listed below.
- Nowadays, as a conservation measure, local councils have imposed curfews for domestic cats and begun impounding felines found wandering the streets at night.
- In addition, every citizen has the right to pick up a stray pet and have it impounded by the Animal Control Officers.
- Up to 30 dogs a week are picked up or abandoned and impounded by the council, and once they're in, they have five days for their original or a new owner to pick them up before the contract vet is called in.
- People had to licence their dogs and keep them under control on their own property, otherwise the dogs would be impounded and most likely put down.
- The fish were to be impounded and handed over to the SPCA for safekeeping, Singh said.
- Geraldton City Council and local vets are joining forces to reduce the number of lost and impounded animals.
- Up to 30 dogs a week are impounded by Newry and Mourne District Council throughout the course of the year.
- Twenty-one animals were impounded for being on the roads, 71 drivers were summonsed for not wearing safety belts and five drivers were summonsed for talking on their cellular phones while driving.
- You become an activist when your dog is impounded, or a freeway is built past your house, or your child gets a disease because of pollution or sour gas.
- Enviromental wardens were called to the scene and the dogs were impounded in a kennel in Blackburn.
- On Saturday, 13 stray cattle were impounded near Berlin after a motorist swerved to avoid them and rolled his vehicle.
- One proposal was changing the amount of time dogs were impounded from 72 hours to one week.
Synonyms pen in, shut in, shut up, fence in, coop up, hem in, box in, hedge in, rail in 3(of a dam) hold back or confine (water). （水坝）拦（水）；蓄（水） Example sentencesExamples - There are no mountain gorges on the Euphrates in Syria and the few places suitable for even the shallow impounding of water have already been utilized: the Tishreen Dam, the Thawrah Dam, and the Ba'ath Dam.
- Massive undersea landslides and the breakage of ice or sediment dams impounding large lakes are terrestrial processes that lead to release of water.
- This topography limits Iraq's ability to impound the waters of the Euphrates behind high dams; consequently, they empty into the Gulf without being put to use.
- At a cost of £26 million, the marina project will initially require significant civil engineering work to create the development land and impound water within the marina.
- There was speculation that Yorkshire Water's impounding reservoir in Boltby Forest, a mile from the village and 300 ft higher, had burst its dam and contributed to the flash flood.
- Dams could both drop water and impound it, and multipurpose dams after World War II seemed self justifying.
- Indeed, the dams which impound the headwaters release a weekly dose of ‘compensation flow’, which delivers at least one artificial spate for your holiday, even with the sun beating down.
- When the Three Gorges Dam begins to impound the waters of the Yangtze River in south central China later this year, dozens of the mountains and other elevated areas upstream will become islands.
- Birds love water, and wildlife authorities are planning to create a few more ponds inside the Guindy National Park to impound rainwater more effectively.
- A dam is an artificial barrier constructed across a stream channel to impound water.
- Just before the locks and dams impounded water, timber was clear-cut and the remaining stump fields are so hazardous that even avid fishermen avoid them.
- Pakistan's fear is that the project would impound the Chenab waters within India and thus deprive Pakistan what is exclusively its.
- The Corps' Yazoo Pumps plan would drain water impounded by levees during high stages on the Mississippi River.
- If Yellowstone's waters had been dammed, two iconic national parks would have succumbed to resource development, and it would have been far easier to impound water in all national parks.
- I really thought that a team of top Central officials and water experts would be scurrying about in the two States, visiting the areas where the crop was wilting and where the impounded water was standing.
- Heavy downpours during recent months caused impounded water to rise faster than the spillways could cope and they collapsed Sept.12, forcing 1,000 families to flee the area.
- In certain situations decreases in soil grade can lead to the impounding of water at or near the soil surface.
- It would all depend on whether the water impounded by the landslip leaked through slowly or the blockage gave way suddenly due to pressure.
- TLDP III alone will impound water in a reservoir and submerge 156.49 hectares.
- The effluent gets blended with the floods impounded by the dam and the water quality becomes slightly improved.
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