Difference between Taken and Confiscate

TAKEN vs CONFISCATE: NOUN

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 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.

Appropriated under legal authority as forfeited.
Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.
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.
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.

Embezzled, Appropriated, Interpreted, Arrogated, Expropriated, Understood, Purloined, Confiscate, Affected, Condemned, Stolen, Usurped, Confiscated, Assumed, Seized

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

Embezzled, Appropriated, Interpreted, Arrogated, Expropriated, Understood, Purloined, Confiscate, Affected, Condemned, Stolen, Usurped, Confiscated, Assumed, Seized

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

Company A is taken over by new management.
You will be taken to our partner Chegg.
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My freedom was taken away my individuality was taken away.
There are images, I believe of Christians taken as slaves in north Africa, and of Christians taken as slaves by North American Indians.
The verdict on that count should be taken and no verdict taken on the alternative count.
The detailed figures are taken from the Economic Censuses taken once every five years; the figures are then updated from various annual supplements.
For example, Indonesia, which by and large has taken domestic terrorism quite seriously, but has taken threats that fall short of terrorism less seriously.
Black seed oil is usually taken orally, either taken straight as an oil or in a gel capsule.
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