Usually means: Seize property with legal authority.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word confiscate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. confiscate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. confiscate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confiscate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confiscate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confiscate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confiscate, confiscate: Wordnik
  7. confiscate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confiscate: Wiktionary
  9. confiscate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confiscate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confiscate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. confiscate: Dictionary.com
  13. confiscate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. confiscate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Confiscate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Confiscate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. confiscate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. confiscate: Rhymezone
  19. confiscate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. confiscate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. confiscate: Free Dictionary
  22. confiscate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. confiscate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Confiscate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. confiscate: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. confiscate: Legal dictionary
  7. confiscate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confiscate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confiscate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confiscate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See confiscated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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