confiscate

To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.transitive

• In schools, it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.

Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.not-comparableobsolete

• Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum, / Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
• […] thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.