Crossword-Solution: CONFISCATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Confiscate | a. | Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. |
| Confiscate | v. t. | To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “CONFISCATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| escheat | 1 answer |
| Grab for your own | 1 answer |
| APPROPRIATE by way of penalty | 1 answer |
| APPROPRIATE summarily | 2 answers |
| secularise | 4 answers |
| expropriate | 13 answers |
| arrogate | 14 answers |
| Commandeer. | 20 answers |
| [See circled letters] | 21 answers |
| Dispossess | 25 answers |
| Possess | 26 answers |
| Take away | 26 answers |
| Nab | 30 answers |
| Seize | 35 answers |
| Annex | 41 answers |
| Grab | 44 answers |
| usurp | 45 answers |
| Divest | 54 answers |
| disassociate | 56 answers |
| Impound | 57 answers |
| Allocate | 62 answers |
| make free with | 62 answers |
| Forfeit | 65 answers |
| Sequester | 65 answers |
| Obliterate | 67 answers |
| Deprive. | 68 answers |
| Obligate | 68 answers |
| Assume | 70 answers |
| Take | 94 answers |
| Ruin | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CONFISCATE (5)
Seeing that all your estate is confiscate as a penalty for your late rebellion, I will charge myself with your dowry, and give it back to you.
This work deserves careful analysis, not only as representing the highest and most approved university teaching of the time at the centre of Roman Catholic Christendom, but still more because it represents that attempt to make a compromise between theology and science, or rather the attempt to confiscate science to the uses of theology, which we so constantly find whenever the triumph of science in any field has become inevitable.
The life of Stilicho was repeatedly attempted by the dagger of hired assassins; and a decree was obtained from the senate of Constantinople, to declare him an enemy of the republic, and to confiscate his ample possessions in the provinces of the East.
Nathless, neither he is advantaged nor I, for the estates are confiscate.” “Then they shall be restored forthwith!” cried the King; “and lest you two should revive the ancient quarrel over them, I bestow them upon you jointly.
Thus the mutual resentments and interests of the king and the abbot concurred to subject the earl to the penalties of outlawry, by which the abbot would gain his due upon the lands of Locksley, and the rest would be confiscate to the king.
Quotes with CONFISCATE (3)
Personally, if I were trying to discourage people from smoking, my sign would be a little different. In fact, I might even go too far in the opposite direction. My sign would say something like, "Smoke if you wish. But if you do, be prepared for the following series of events: First, we will confiscate your cigarette and extinguish it somewhere on the surface of your skin. We will then run you nicotine-stained fingers through a paper shredder and throw them into the street, w…
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him t…
By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2013–2016).