Difference between Forfeit and Confiscate

FORFEIT vs CONFISCATE: NOUN

Synonyms See list under forfeiture.
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; hence, in the plural, a game in which articles deposited by individual players as forfeited by doing or omitting to do something are redeemable by some sportive fine or penalty imposed by the judge.
That to which the legal or moral right is lost by one's own act or failure to act, as by a breach of conditions or by a wrong deed or offense; hence, that which is taken or paid in forfeiture; a fine; a mulct; a penalty: as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
A transgression; a misdeed; a crime; a malicious injury.
Injury; wrong; mischief.
A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty.
A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor
In parlor games, an item placed in escrow and redeemed by paying a fine or performing an appointed task.
The act of forfeiting.
Something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty;
A penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something
The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
A game in which forfeits are demanded.

Lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; ; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.
To subject to seizure as a forfeit.
To lose or give up (something) on account of an offense, error, or failure to fulfill an agreement.

To seize (private property) for the public treasury, especially as a penalty for wrongdoing.
To seize by authority: : appropriate.
To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

To cause the forfeiture of.
To lose the legal or moral right to by one's own act or omission to act, usually by a breach of conditions or by a wrong act, offense, fault, crime, or neglect; become by one's own act liable to be deprived of.
To yield up as a forfeiture.
Lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
Forfeited.
To subject to forfeiture.
To transgress; trespass; commit a fault.
(past participle) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; appropriate, by way of penalty, to public use.
To take away from another by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily, as anything improperly held or obtained by another; seize as forfeited for any reason: as, to confiscate a book; the police confiscated a set of gambling implements.
Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.
Appropriated under legal authority as forfeited.

Cede, Forego, Withdraw, Surrender, Relinquish, Lose, Throw overboard, Render, Give up, Sacrifice, Lost, Forgo, Confiscate, Waive, Forfeiture

Seizure, Detain, Expropriate, Taken over, Condemned, Appropriated, Lost, Sequester, Taken, Attach, Forfeit, Forfeited, Impound, Seized, Seize

Earned, Seizure, Forsake, Accumulated, Quit, Seize, Forego, Surrender, Lose, Render, Give up, Lost, Confiscate, Waive, Forfeiture

Capture, Requisition, Seizure, Detain, Taken over, Condemned, Appropriated, Lost, Taken, Attach, Forfeit, Forfeited, Impound, Seized, Seize

Early withdrawal will result in forfeit of bonuses.
Only the Tournament Committee can declare a forfeit.
Tiger Asia Hedge Funds to Forfeit Insider Gains.
No, you do not forfeit your accrued bonus.
Point could be forced to forfeit other games.
In certain cases, a deposit may be forfeit.
Stephen Hester will forfeit any unvested stock awards.
The second time, you will forfeit your game.
If the employee withdraws from the plan within five years, the matching shares are forfeit, and if within three years, dividend shares are forfeit.
A season ago, the Eagles received a forfeit win over the Cardinals who went on to forfeit all of their games.