Difference between Seize and Confiscate

SEIZE vs CONFISCATE: ADJECTIVE

Take or capture by force
Hook by a pull on the line
Capture the attention or imagination of
Take possession of by force, as after an invasion
Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
Affect
To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture
To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)
To take possession of (by force, law etc.)
To have a sudden and powerful effect upon
To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line
To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon)
To have a seizure
To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up
Take hold of; grab

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 focus the attention or intellect on.
To take quick and forcible possession of; confiscate.
To take by force; capture or conquer.
To grasp suddenly and forcibly; take or grab.
To exhibit signs of seizure activity, often with convulsions.
To come to a halt.
To cohere or fuse with another part as a result of high pressure or temperature and restrict or prevent further motion or flow.
To bind (a rope) to another, or to a spar, with turns of small line.
To cause (someone) to be in possession of something.
To overwhelm physically.
To have a sudden overwhelming effect on.
To make use of (an opportunity, for example).
To lay sudden or forcible hold of something.

To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
To take possession of by force.
To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly.
To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority.
To fasten; to fix.
To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly.
To have possession, or right of possession
To fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession of suddenly and forcibly.
To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline.

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

To take possession of
By virtue of a warrant or legal authority: as, to seize smuggled goods; to seize a ship after libeling.
To put in possession; make possessed; possess: commonly with of before the thing possessed: as, A. B. was seized and possessed of the manor; to seize one's self of an inheritance.
By force, with or without right.
To lay sudden or forcible hold of; grasp; clutch: either literally or figuratively.
To lay hold in seizure, as by hands or claws: with on or upon.
Take hold of
Grab
Take as one's right or possession
To come upon with sudden attack; have a sudden and powerful effect upon: as, a panic seized the crowd; a fever seized him.
To fasten; fix.
Nautical, to bind, lash, or make fast, as one thing to another, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line; stop: as, to seize two fish-hooks back to back; to seize or stop one rope on to another.
Synonyms and To snatch, catch, capture, apprehend, arrest, take, attach.
In metallurgy, to cohere.

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.

Steal, Usurp, Wrest, Snatch, Prehend, Appropriate, Clutch, Take over, Sequester, Attach, Conquer, Impound, Capture, Grab, Confiscate

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

Take, Confiscated, Steal, Usurp, Wrest, Snatch, Appropriate, Clutch, Take over, Attach, Conquer, Impound, Capture, Grab, Confiscate

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

You must actually or constructively SEIZE the arrestee.
Can the IRS Seize My House or Assets?
Seize him, for he is one of them.
This entry is used to seize the mutex.
IRS seize these funds as it sees fit.
Generally, the IRS will seek court approval to seize assets and can even obtain court orders to enter your residence to seize assets.
Legal process to seize and search a PDA should also request authority to seize and search chargers, cradles, and associated computers.
Seize an eye in the center of one, then reeve the other rope through this eye and seize them together snugly.
With a judgment in hand, MCA companies then seize not only borrowers business accounts, but they also seize personal accounts.
CAA can seize air cargoin transit whereas trading standards can seize all unsafegoods from a shipper and thus prevent furthershipments.