confiscate
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confiscate (something) from (someone)
To take something away from someone, often as a form of punishment. I always confiscate cell phones from students who try to use them in my classroom. Hey, the cops confiscated a bunch of stuff from me during their search, and I'd like it back! The security guard apprehended the man after confiscating a knife from him.
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confiscate something from someone or something
to seize or impound something from someone or a group. The police confiscated all the stolen property from the suspect's garage. The clean confiscated the beer from the dormitory.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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For IMF boss Christine Lagarde, what the would-be global wealth
confiscators are demanding is simply part of formulating a "just" fiscal policy.
Gun control is a losing issue for would-be
confiscators. That is why even liberals, like President Obama, find it necessary to embrace-or at least pretend to embrace--an individualist view of the Second Amendment.
RACIAL CLEANSING AND THE
CONFISCATORS! Evil cannot be a simple sideshow--the momentary ogle of a bearded lady or a lewd peek at some hermaphrodite's minuscule appliances.
"Why won't you gun nuts at least compromise a little on gun control?" For four decades, that has been the baseline argument of the
confiscators.
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