Usually means: Seized and held by authority.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. impounded: Merriam-Webster
  2. impounded: Collins English Dictionary
  3. impounded: Vocabulary.com
  4. Impounded, impounded: Wordnik
  5. impounded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. impounded: Wiktionary
  7. Impounded, impounded: Dictionary.com
  8. impounded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Impounded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Impounded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. impounded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. impounded: FreeDictionary.org
  13. impounded: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. impounded: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. impounded: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impounded: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impound)

verb:  (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
verb:  (transitive) To hold back.
verb:  (transitive, law) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
verb:  (transitive, law, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest.
noun:  A place in which impounded things are stored.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being impounded.
noun:  That which has been impounded.
noun:  (law, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for payment of property taxes and insurance.
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