confiscated

verb

past tense of confiscate
as in seized
to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority anything that might be used as a weapon will be confiscated by the security guards

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Recent Examples of confiscated Walker says another goal is getting confiscated turtles back to the wild, but as Kung notes, smugglers commingle different turtles, spreading diseases that must be kept out of wild populations. — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Those numbers include 759 false identification cards confiscated, 378 alcohol-possession-by-a-minor violations and 98 fake-ID citations during the calendar-year reporting period, according to Oxford Police. — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Police returned 13 of the cats confiscated in the raid to their owners. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 York had a cellphone returned to him, but the $160 that police confiscated from him was given to the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force as part of the plea agreement. — Erick Mendoza, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026 York was arrested after responding to an online prostitution by the Miami Valley Human Trafficking Task Force, which confiscated his cellphone and $160 in cash. — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 The outlets sued after their reporters were barred from the White House and some journalists had their press passes confiscated by the Secret Service. — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026 The filing said a Secret Service agent had confiscated the journalists’ credentials. — Jocelyn Noveck, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 Despite the judge’s order, the Secret Service on Thursday morning refused to admit a Politico reporter to the White House and confiscated the reporter’s press pass, the news outlet reported. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confiscated
  1. seized
  2. attached
  3. expropriated
  4. sequestered
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  • The latest conflict between the Saudis and the Houthis began last month after the rebels seized key areas along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical waterway for oil shipments.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Another Renoir, a Cézanne and a Matisse were taken from the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma, Italy, in March (and also later recovered), while four Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina were seized from a Sicilian museum in August.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of seized
Verb
  • Stellantis There's also all the homologation and regulatory hurdles attached to having something that flits between being a passenger-car and a light truck.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Most practice systems model authorization as a yes or no attached to a code, which is why this change cannot be entered correctly.
    — JP Montoya, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of attached
Verb
  • Chávez had ordered all of Venezuela’s ports to be expropriated.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
  • Gray says the project, revolving around an elderly woman seeking revenge on a foreign company that expropriated her land to build a luxury ski resort, offers international casting and co-producer angles but that the configuration will depend on Kawawada’s artistic vision.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 May 2026
Definition of expropriated
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  • While Atlanta’s luxury hotels are mainly sequestered to corporate Midtown and Buckhead, Forth’s arrival in Old Fourth Ward brings an exciting luxurious element to the neighborhood.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
  • As atmospheric carbon rises to levels beyond precedent in human history and consequently raises the global temperature to levels unprecedented on the human scale, the importance of places where carbon is sequestered becomes ever greater.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of sequestered

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“Confiscated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confiscated. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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