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Definition
to take something regardless of consent — especially by public authority
- At other camps, machine guns and barrels of accelerant were brought in, and POWs' dog tags were confiscated in an apparent effort to "not .... leave any traces."p. 210.9
- In choppy English, he said that in the captives' confiscated wallets, the sailors had found the clipping Louie had cut from a Hawaiian newspaper, describing his role in the Wake raid.p. 145.6
There are no more uses of "confiscate" in Unbroken - adapted for young adults.
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