Seizure vs. Confiscate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Seizure and Confiscate
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Seizure
A seizure, formally known as an epileptic seizure, is a period of symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Outward effects vary from uncontrolled shaking movements involving much of the body with loss of consciousness (tonic-clonic seizure), to shaking movements involving only part of the body with variable levels of consciousness (focal seizure), to a subtle momentary loss of awareness (absence seizure).
Confiscate
To seize (private property) for the public treasury, especially as a penalty for wrongdoing.
Seizure
The act or an instance of seizing or the condition of being seized.
Confiscate
To seize by authority
The teacher confiscated all the comic books we had in class.
Seizure
A sudden attack, spasm, or convulsion, as in epilepsy or another disorder.
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Confiscate
Seized by a government; appropriated.
Seizure
The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
The seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
The search warrant permitted the seizure of evidence.
Confiscate
Having lost property through confiscation.
Seizure
A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
He fell to the floor and convulsed when the epileptic seizure occurred.
Confiscate
(transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
In schools it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.
Seizure
A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
He felt the sudden seizure of pain as the heart attack began.
Confiscate
(obsolete) Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.
Seizure
That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.
Confiscate
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
Seizure
(obsolete) Retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.
Confiscate
To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized.
Seizure
To undergo an epileptic seizure.
Confiscate
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority;
The FBI seized the drugs
The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment
The police confiscated the stolen artwork
Seizure
The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
Confiscate
Surrendered as a penalty
Seizure
Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.
Make o'er thy honor by a deed of trust,And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.
Confiscate
Taken without permission or consent especially by public authority;
The condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf
The confiscated liquor was poured down the drain
Seizure
That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.
Seizure
A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease;
He suffered an epileptic seizure
Seizure
The act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
Seizure
The act of taking of a person by force
Seizure
The taking possession of something by legal process
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