1) Appropriate 2) Forfeit 3) Forfeited 4) Grab for your own 5) Hold 6) Impound 7) Lock away 8) Lost 9) Put in store 10) Requisition 11) Seize 12) Seize by way of penalty 13) Surrendered as a penalty 14) Take away 15) Take possession of 1) Appropriated 2) Confiscated 3) Escheat 4) Forfeit 5) Forfeited 6) Garnishee 7) Impound 8) Seize 9) Seized 10) Sequester 11) Take 
• (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. • (a.) Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
It refers to seizing of goods or property without any legal authority,but in some cases it is done to prevent illegal activities. Seizing of private property of an individual by the government for public use withoiut paying proper compensation, seizing of goods or property that have been used for illegal purposes is a legal confiscation.
when the police or someone else in authority takes away a person's property - e.g., alcohol if you are drinking under-age on the street
Con'fis·cate adjective [ Latin confiscatus , past participle of confiscare to confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest; con- + fiscus basket, purse, treasury. See Fiscal .] Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. « Lest that your...
To take private property for public use without reasonable compensation, such as when the government confiscates an automobile used to transport contraband.
[adj] - surrendered as a penalty
forfeit adjective surrendered as a penalty
[Literary terms] take temporary possession of a security by legal authority