confiscate
充公,充公了,充公的,充公了的
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con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing.
- : to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use.
- : to seize by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily: The border guards confiscated our movie cameras.
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- : seized or appropriated, as for public use.
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Hundreds of state police and other law enforcement officers converged on Mink Slide early the next morning, forcing residents from their houses and confiscating their guns, jewelry and money.
Yet the federal government continues to treat it like a schedule one narcotic — the same classification for heroin — and so sometimes its agents confiscate large amounts of product and cash.
Samuels said it would make sense if Border Patrol just logged shipments from state-licensed businesses and requested the Certificate of Analysis so they could keep track them, rather than confiscate the product.
Josh Swider, CEO of InfiniteCAL, a testing lab in San Diego, said one of his sampling technicians was stopped at the end of May and 14 samples of hemp were confiscated.
Four days earlier, on June 24, 1969, the police, led by Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, raided the Stonewall Inn and began arresting bar employees and confiscating liquor.