IMPOUNDING Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

impounding

verb

present participle of impound

as in confining

to deprive of the ability or liberty to leave impound stray animals

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Recent Examples of impounding The measure also would have required impounding trucks and imposing a $50,000 fine on the vehicles’ owners. — News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026 The county is on track to spend more than $1 million this fiscal year on animal welfare, including the cost of impounding about 1,700 animals. — Nina Burns, CBS News, 5 May 2026 The new dam at Lake Placid started impounding water in February and the lake is now about half full, district board president Robin Dwyer said. — Liz Teitz, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2026 The documents state that the Department of Transportation marked the vehicle and issued a citation before impounding it. — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 25 Feb. 2026 Last summer, the city also confirmed that since Crow Tow took over vehicle releases from the Police Department, no appeals hearings had been held for anyone unhappy with impounding or the prices the company charges. — Lee Rood, Des Moines Register, 20 Feb. 2026 City authorities had started destroying the makeshift homes of people living on the streets and impounding their possessions. — Saumya Roy, The Dial, 6 Jan. 2026 Most of the north state’s major reservoirs are running well above average for this time of year, with Shasta Lake, the primary federal supply, impounding 72% of capacity — 123% of its historical average — as of Tuesday. — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 30 Dec. 2025 The administration has dabbled in impounding funds appropriated by Congress, despite a law barring this. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2025

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Use a summer-friendly baby carrier The combination of your body heat and the carrier’s confining space can make an infant hot and bothered within a matter of minutes.

— Nancy Mattia, Parents, 8 July 2026
Plants are also unbothered by confining pavement and other urban challenges.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 June 2026

Definition of confining

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Officials reinforced stay-at-home orders by erecting fences around some apartment buildings, essentially incarcerating occupants.

— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026

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With gallons of sunscreen, truckloads of ice and innovative hot-weather treats like upside-down sundaes, day camps are keeping thousands of kids cool in Hotlanta’s record-breaking temperatures.

— Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 24 July 2026
Steve Sarkisian was noncommittal about the Longhorns keeping their upcoming series with Notre Dame after his team lost to Ohio State and finished 9-3 last season.

— Seth Emerson, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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Suarez’ plan would reverse the existing incentives, restricting new hotel development to a height of 50 feet while upping the cap for residential to 75 feet, with a doubling of the allowable square footage in most places.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
Idaho groups and individuals have filed a lawsuit over state law restricting the amount of money political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates.

— Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 22 July 2026

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The turn of events prompt the narrator to re-examine his life as a gay Latine son of immigrants whose hometown is now imprisoning people like him.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Trump, in one of his Truth Social posts, cited laws against defacing monuments as grounds for imprisoning anyone harming the pool.

— Nathan Ellgren, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026

Definition of imprisoning

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Simmons, a native of Buffalo, New York, got his start interning for Ani DiFranco, whose Righteous Babe Records was based in town.

— Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2026
Pruitt also ran varsity cross-country and track and spent last summer interning for the Henry County Water Authority, tapping into his passion for clean water and the environment.

— Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026

Definition of interning

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Videos and images from the scene showed a fire with a plume of smoke and bright orange flames near a building entrance, as well as law enforcement officers restraining the suspect.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
Videos and photos from the scene showed a fire with a plume of smoke on the sidewalk outside the building, as well as officers restraining a person and taking them away.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

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