Wednesday, June 22, 2011

confiscated

–verb (used with object)
1.
to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, byway of penalty, for public use.
2.
to seize by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily: Theborder guards confiscated our movie cameras.
–adjective
"the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain"
"The police confiscated the stolen artwork"