📱confiscate (kawn-fis-ket)

verb
/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
confisquer (kon-fis-ker)

Signification

to take something away officially, often as a punishment
Traduction de la signification
prendre quelque chose de manière officielle, souvent en punition
pren-dre kel-ke cho-ze de ma-ner offi-cielle, sou-vent en pu-ni-tion

Phrases d'exemple

The teacher confiscated the student's phone during class.

Le professeur a confisqué le téléphone de l'élève pendant le cours.
Le pro-fes-seur a kon-fis-ké le té-lé-pho-ne de l'é-lè-ve pen-dant le cours.

Expressions d'exemple

confiscate property
confisquer des biens
kon-fis-ker de byen

Synonymes

seize, impound, appropriate, expropriate, take

Antonymes

return, give back, restore

Collocations

confiscate goods, confiscate property, confiscated items, confiscate weapons

Vocabulaires connexes

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to reduce something to the smallest possible amount or degree
To repeatedly ask or annoy someone with demands or questions.