Usually means: Takes away property by authority.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word confiscates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. confiscates: Merriam-Webster
  2. confiscates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. confiscates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Confiscates, confiscates: Wordnik
  5. confiscates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. confiscates: Wiktionary
  7. confiscates: Dictionary.com
  8. confiscates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. confiscates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confiscates: Encyclopedia

(Note: See confiscate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (confiscate)

verb:  (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
adjective:  (obsolete) Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.
▸ Also see confiscate





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