confiscated in the PONS Dictionary

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During the Reformation many of the church's assets were confiscated.
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While much of the cache consists of confiscated bottles of water and sunscreen, volunteers never know what unusual oddments they might stumble upon.
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If, at the year's end, their credit exceeded the maximum (half the size of the overdraft in surplus), the surplus would be confiscated.
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Her fathers business was confiscated and the family displaced.
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The palace was confiscated by the tsarist government in 1794 and transformed into an apartment house.
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The manor was confiscated and became crown property.
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The police confiscated the library book from the student and informed the university that the book would have to be destroyed.
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His monkey was confiscated, there were run-ins with the police, a scuffle with the paps -- but no one got hurt more than the fans.
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The platinum confiscated from counterfeiters was then thrown into the sea, in accordance with the royal decree of 1735.
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His travel was restricted, then his passport confiscated.
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