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Impound   /ɪmpˈaʊnd/   Listen
Impound

verb
(past & past part. impounded; pres. part. impounding)
1.
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority.  Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester.  "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment" , "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
2.
Place or shut up in a pound.  Synonym: pound.



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"Impound" Quotes from Famous Books



... rifles are sure to be contraband here; but this is a wild district, and the people won't be too well-disposed towards us, coming and stopping their little game. We've a right to impound the rifles, I daresay, but I really think we had better look ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang
... on, 'he became rather noisome, and we thought we might as well impound the correspondence'—he wrinkled his swelled left eye—'and after that, we got him to take a ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... Lent is come, let us refrain From carnal creatures, quick or slain; Let's fast and macerate the flesh, Impound and ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... alkaline just where it was needed most. I couldn't develop an irrigation system from any of the little streams that flowed down the Sierra, because there wasn't enough water, and there was no place to impound it, even if there ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne


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