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impound

verb

1 impound

Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority:
— The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment.

synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester.

Roget 751: restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral, inthrall, bethral, bethrall; restrict; debar etc. ... show more

Dutch: confisqueren

2 impound

Place or shut up in a pound.

synonym: pound.

Dutch: in beslag nemen, confisqueren


Moby thesaurus: annex, attach, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, cage, chamber, check, cloister, close in, collectivize, commandeer, communalize, communize, compass ... show more.

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