All 7 Uses
confiscate
in
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:
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(1)
(confiscate) to take something regardless of consent -- often as a punishment or by authority
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)