- past participle of confiscate.
- past tense form of confiscate.
confiscated
Example Sentences
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Prosecutors have also requested four of the brothers' luxury cars worth £710,000 are confiscated.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Conservation scientists may be able to analyze confiscated scales, determine which pangolin species they came from, and then use that information to identify regions where poaching pressure is especially intense.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The order also noted that $160 that had been confiscated in the arrest would be forfeited to MVHTTF, which appears to stand for the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Long-term bonds became known, jocularly, as “certificates of confiscation”: Owning them entitled you to have some of your money confiscated by the government every year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
They loaded their truck with all the things they had confiscated, including the bicycle that Qian had refused to lend them.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
