confiscate
/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/verb
with obj.
1- take or seize (someone's property) with authority没收, 查抄（某人的财产）：
the guards confiscated his camera
警卫没收了他的相机
as adj. confiscated confiscated equipment.被没收的设备。
1.1
- appropriate (something, especially land) to the public treasury as a penalty充公, 罚没（某物, 尤指土地）。
派生词
confiscation
nounconfiscator
nounconfiscatory
adjective词源
mid 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'.