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The teacher confiscated her phone after she kept texting during class.confiscated = took away
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Security confiscated the pocketknife at the airport checkpoint.
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The police confiscated the stolen goods during the raid.
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There was no need to imprison them: the Arabs simply confiscated their horses. (source)confiscated = took (regardless of consent)
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They'll confiscate any communication or recording devices he's got on him. (source)confiscate = take away regardless of consent -- especially by public authority
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In some of them, Louie had forgotten to aim the camera away from the Norden bombsight, so Krey had to confiscate those.† (source)
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Madam Pomfrey, however, felt it might not be very hygienic, and confiscated it.† (source)
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Mr. Bennett's policy of "the iron heel of ruthlessness" had been correct, he said, as imprisonment of those plotting to topple elected governments and confiscate private property was the only way to deal with subversion.† (source)
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The academy's reputation as a good school would not suffer by this action of confiscation as much as that reputation would suffer from "criminal charges."† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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They evicted Jews from their apartments and moved in, confiscating their belongings.† (source)
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To clothe the migrants, he circumvents Mexican Customs, which inspects cars and confiscates used clothing coming into the country, in what Padre Leo believes is an attempt to protect Mexican clothing manufacturers.† (source)
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The confiscators were often deputies sworn in hastily during the turbulent days right after Pearl Harbor, and these men seemed to be acting out the general panic, seeing sinister possibilities in the most ordinary household items: flashlights, kitchen knives, cameras, lanterns, toy swords.† (source)
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It was as much injured by its charges in fitting out an armament against the Spaniards, during the time of the Armada, as by the fines and confiscations levied on it by Elizabeth for harbouring of priests, obstinate recusancy, and popish misdoings.† (source)
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He knew Jews were no longer allowed to work and that their businesses had been confiscated.† (source)
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If we're in the authorities' files as potential emigrants, they'll confiscate the profits from the auction, too.† (source)
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I January 1944 The German newspapers are indignantly reporting the confiscation and removal of art treasures by the Americans in the south of Italy.† (source)
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