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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impounding
  1. confining
  2. incarcerating
  3. keeping
  4. limiting
  5. restricting
  6. imprisoning
  7. interning
  8. restraining
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  • Potentially containing trillions of parameters — values learned during training — frontier models require vast computing resources, largely confining them to data centers, where they can be more easily monitored and, in principle, switched off.
    — Robert Hart, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Luck was not widespread among Wednesday’s Florida Lotto, Fantasy 5 and Powerball drawings, confining itself to a single ticket.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of confining
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  • Demolishing universities, assaulting the press, violently resegregating the public sphere, ramming degenerative AI down our throats, incarcerating mere zine makers, the regime is systematically repealing the right to culture.
    — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The goal is to reduce violence, get people proper resources, and avoid the cycle of incarcerating people dealing with poverty, addiction, and mental health.
    — Scott Maucione, NPR, 27 July 2026
Definition of incarcerating
Verb
  • Matsui, meanwhile, has tried to carefully navigate keeping her moderate Democrat base while appealing to Republicans who might view Vang as too liberal for the district.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • By tonight, your attention turns toward what feels worth keeping, spending, or investing in.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of keeping
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  • The plight of the Palestinians continues to resonate with foreign publics, limiting how far pivotal countries such as Saudi Arabia will go in normalizing relations with Israel.
    — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The legislation includes measures aimed at encouraging housing construction, reducing regulatory barriers, expanding financing options and limiting purchases of single-family homes by large institutional investors.
    — Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Jessica Dickler,Sarah Agostino,Greg Iacurci,Lorie Konish,Annie Nova,Sharon Epperson,Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of limiting
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  • The league issued memos to its sportsbooks partners and all 30 teams restricting bets that are easy for an individual player to manipulate.
    — Josh Appel, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Social media was reckoned Lula’s Achilles’ Heel, with his own Workers’ Party accusing Meta’s platform Instagram of restricting the reach and sound of its posts, as well as Lula’s profile and visibility on search engines.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of restricting
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  • Despite its lengthy history of imprisoning Americans on questionable charges, Russia has not faced the designation, which was applied to Iran in February and Afghanistan in March.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Many governments are doing this through surveillance, monitoring social media, doxxing, creating AI deepfakes and even forcibly repatriating critics in exile and imprisoning them.
    — Mary Lind, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of imprisoning
Verb
  • Some Alvernia students are already interning with federal agencies and completing work that requires secret security clearances.
    — Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • High school students interning at an observatory in Hawaii have successfully imaged a pair of colliding spiral galaxies located deep within overlapping cultural constellations.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of interning
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  • Some food employees working with open food are wearing visors which are not effectively restraining their hair.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Raising retirement ages and restraining entitlement growth make the debt more manageable.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of restraining

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“Impounding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impounding. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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