Definition of "confiscating" [confiscating]

• Present participle of confiscate. (verb)

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• "I find the notion of confiscating Uighurs' passports strange."
• "The State is indeed confiscating, that is, it is taxing in many cases in such a fashion as to impoverish the tax-payer and is lessening his capital rather than shearing his income."
• "They toyed with the idea of confiscating my Cambridge Z88 laptop computer just in case we were planning to overthrow the government with it, but in the end the small nasty man merely confiscated Chris's car magazine on the grounds that he liked cars and then, for now, we were free."