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   confiscate

   /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. take or seize (someone's property) with authority: "the guards confiscated his camera"
   • ▪ appropriate (something, especially land) to the public treasury as a penalty: "this land was confiscated after the Second World War"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from Latin confiscat- ‘put away in a chest, consigned to the public treasury’, from the verb confiscare, based on con- ‘together’ + fiscus ‘chest, treasury’.

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