Confiscating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Confiscate \Con"fis*cate\ (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Confiscated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confiscating}.]
     To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate
     to the public use.
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           It was judged that he should be banished and his whole
           estate confiscated and seized.           --Bacon.
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