Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to confiscate
Participle: confiscated
Gerund: confiscating
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | confiscate |
| you | confiscate |
| he;she;it | confiscates |
| we | confiscate |
| you | confiscate |
| they | confiscate |
Perfect
| I | have confiscated |
| you | have confiscated |
| he;she;it | has confiscated |
| we | have confiscated |
| you | have confiscated |
| they | have confiscated |
Past
| I | confiscated |
| you | confiscated |
| he;she;it | confiscated |
| we | confiscated |
| you | confiscated |
| they | confiscated |
Pluperfect
| I | had confiscated |
| you | had confiscated |
| he;she;it | had confiscated |
| we | had confiscated |
| you | had confiscated |
| they | had confiscated |
Future
| I | will confiscate |
| you | will confiscate |
| he;she;it | will confiscate |
| we | will confiscate |
| you | will confiscate |
| they | will confiscate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have confiscated |
| you | will have confiscated |
| he;she;it | will have confiscated |
| we | will have confiscated |
| you | will have confiscated |
| they | will have confiscated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | confiscate |
| you | confiscate |
| he;she;it | confiscate |
| we | confiscate |
| you | confiscate |
| they | confiscate |
Perfect
| I | have confiscated |
| you | have confiscated |
| he;she;it | have confiscated |
| we | have confiscated |
| you | have confiscated |
| they | have confiscated |
Imperfect
| I | confiscated |
| you | confiscated |
| he;she;it | confiscated |
| we | confiscated |
| you | confiscated |
| they | confiscated |
Pluperfect
| I | had confiscated |
| you | had confiscated |
| he;she;it | had confiscated |
| we | had confiscated |
| you | had confiscated |
| they | had confiscated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would confiscate |
| you | would confiscate |
| he;she;it | would confiscate |
| we | would confiscate |
| you | would confiscate |
| they | would confiscate |
Perfect
| I | would have confiscated |
| you | would have confiscated |
| he;she;it | would have confiscated |
| we | would have confiscated |
| you | would have confiscated |
| they | would have confiscated |
Imperative
| you | confiscate |
| we | Let's confiscate |
| you | confiscate |
Verbs conjugated like 'confiscate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'confiscate'
confuscate,
reconfiscate,
conciliate,
concinnate,
concionate,
conculcate,
configurate,
conflate,
confusticate,
conidiate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- seize or confiscate (property) by force
- impound, impress, seize, sequester
- appropriate
- impound, seize, commandeer, expropriate, sequester, usurp, steal
Antonyms
- appropriate
- inappropriate, unsuitable, unfitting, inept
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1533, originally, "to appropriate for the treasury," from L.
confiscatus pp. of
confiscare, from
com- "together" +
fiscus "public treasury," lit. "money basket."
2. Borrowed from Latin cōnfiscātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin cōnfiscō (“to seize for the public treasury (fiscus)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See: Latin '
cōnfiscō'.
Sample Sentences
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In schools, it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.
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We doe confiscate
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(Towards the satisfying of your accounts)
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All that you haue. [c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: John Waterson, published 1623, Act III, Scene 2:]
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1768, Alexander Dow (translator), The History of Hindostan by Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī, London: T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 4, p. 63,
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The Persian having evacuated the imperial provinces, the vizier became more cruel and oppressive than ever: he extorted money from the poor by tortures, and confiscated the estates of the nobility, upon false or very frivolous pretences.
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Why, your cavalier is a rebel—an exile, whose property is confiscated, and for whose neck the gibbet stands prepared! [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 241-242:]
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Whenever you strike a frontier—that’s the border of a country, you know—you find a custom-house there, and the gov’ment officers comes and rummages among your things and charges a big tax, which they call a duty because it’s their duty to bust you if they can, and if you don’t pay the duty they’ll hog your sand. They call it confiscating, but that don’t deceive nobody, it’s just hogging, and that’s all it is. [1894, Mark Twain, chapter 11, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, page 174:]
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They took photographs of the bodies, but these were confiscated on return to Baghdad, and orders were given that nothing was to be said of what they had seen. [1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part 2, p. 46:]
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But his grandson Francis, a Yorkist friend of Richard III, backed the wrong side in the Wars of the Roses and was declared a traitor by Henry VII, who confiscated his estates. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 286:]