con·fis·cate
verb/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they confiscate | /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/ /ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪt/ |
| he / she / it confiscates | /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪts/ /ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪts/ |
| past simple confiscated | /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪd/ /ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle confiscated | /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪd/ /ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form confiscating | /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪŋ/ |
- confiscate something to officially take something away from somebody, especially as a punishment
（尤指作为惩罚）没收，把…充公 - Their land was confiscated after the war.
他们的土地在战后被没收。 - The teacher threatened to confiscate their phones if they kept using them in class.
老师警告说，如果他们上课时继续使用手机就予以没收。 - Our belongings were temporarily confiscated.
我们的财物被暂时没收。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryConfiscate is used with these nouns as the object:- passport
- property
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin confiscat- ‘put away in a chest, consigned to the public treasury’, from the verb confiscare, based on con- ‘together’ + fiscus ‘chest, treasury’. - Their land was confiscated after the war.