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confiscate
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Behind him, confiscated treasures are crammed to the ceiling: rolled tapestries, grandfather clocks, armoires, and giant landscape paintings crazed with cracks.†
p. 14.6 *
Werner stays up late listening to his radio or driving himself through the complicated math he copied out of The Principles of Mechanics before it was confiscated.†
p. 62.3
Where the police confiscated these treasures and from whom, he does not ask.†
p. 142.4
In three months, Sergeant Major von Rumpel has traveled to Berlin and Stuttgart; he has assessed the value of a hundred confiscated rings, a dozen diamond bracelets, a Latvian cigarette case in which a lozenge of blue topaz twinkled; now, back in Paris, he has slept at the Grand Hotel for a week and sent forth his queries like birds.†
p. 234.1
Why else leave it behind in Saint-Malo, if not in fear that it could be confiscated during his journey back?†
p. 429.7
He told them he was sixty-three, not sixty, as they claimed, that his papers had been unfairly confiscated, that he was not a terrorist; he wobbled before the Feldwebel in charge and stumbled through the few German phrases he could stitch together—"Sie mfissen mich helfen!"†
p. 443.1
The civil affairs people have stacks of confiscated German chocolate in rectangular cartons, and Marie-Laure and Madame Ruelle eat too many to count.†
p. 478.1

Definitions:

(1) (confiscate)
to take something regardless of consent -- often as a punishment or by authority
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)