Impound - English meaning

adjective

Suitable or proper in the circumstances.

Usage examples:

This isn't the appropriate time or place

verb

Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

Usage examples:

The accused had appropriated the property

Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

verb

Join or fasten (something) to something else.

Usage examples:

Attach your safety line to the bridge

phrasal verb

Enclose or confine as if in a box

noun

A container where letters and other documents are put when they arrive in a person’s office

noun

A structure of bars or wires in which birds or other animals are confined.

Usage examples:

She kept a canary in a cage

verb

Confine in a cage.

Usage examples:

The parrot screamed, furious at being caged

noun

A structure shaped like a box but with bars or wires as its sides, for keeping pets or for housing animals

Usage examples:

The lab was stocked with wire cages for mice.

verb

Officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes.

Usage examples:

A nearby house had been commandeered by the army

verb

Take arbitrarily or by force

verb

To take possession or control of private property, esp. by force

Usage examples:

Some visitors commandeered outdoor tables on the balcony.

verb

Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time).

Usage examples:

He does not confine his message to high politics

noun

The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement.

Usage examples:

Within the confines of the hall escape was difficult

verb

To keep someone or something within limits

Usage examples:

The animals were confined in a large pen., harris does not confine her stage work to broadway., can…

verb

Take or seize (someone's property) with authority.

Usage examples:

The guards confiscated his camera

verb

To officially take private property away from someone, usually by legal authority

Usage examples:

Customs agents confiscated her bags., [ u ] the law allows for confiscation of vehicles used in cri…

verb

To officially take something away from someone, sometimes for a limited period, because they have done something illegal

Usage examples:

The organization has notified u.s. customs to confiscate all imported fire extinguishers with the c…

verb

Gather together and confine (a group of people or things).

Usage examples:

The organizers were corralling the crowd into marching formation

noun

A pen for livestock, especially cattle or horses, on a farm or ranch.

Usage examples:

He was galloping a pony very fast round a tiny corral

noun

An area surrounded by a fence for keeping horses or cattle

verb

Dispossess (someone) of land or property.

Usage examples:

His ancestors had held the land but had been disseized in the fifteenth century

verb

Seize (someone's property) in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed.

Usage examples:

Legislation has restricted the right to distrain goods found upon the premises

verb

To take and sell property from someone who owes you money in order to pay back their debt

Usage examples:

Under the law, landlords have a legal right to distrain goods from a defaulting tenant in lieu of r…

verb

Surround or close off on all sides.

Usage examples:

The entire estate was enclosed with walls

verb

To surround

Usage examples:

The garden is enclosed by four walls., please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

verb

To include something inside a letter or parcel

Usage examples:

Apply in writing, enclosing a current cv, to the address below., please find enclosed an applicatio…

verb

(of the state or an authority) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit.

Usage examples:

Their assets were expropriated by the government

verb

To take and keep money or property belonging to someone else

verb

If a government expropriates property, it takes it for public use, sometimes without payment to the owner

Usage examples:

The new regime wiped out organized crime and vice, expropriated factories and built new ones, setti…

noun

A container or device in which water is boiled, having a lid, spout, and handle.

Usage examples:

Reports from the prison say the officer was attacked by a prisoner with boiling water from a kettle…

verb

(of the police) confine (a group of demonstrators or protesters) to a small area, as a method of crowd control during a demonstration.

Usage examples:

The plan was to get as close to the protest as possible without getting kettled

noun

A metal pot with a lid for stewing or boiling

verb

Distrain or impound (a person's property).

Usage examples:

The bailiff and his men poind his goods in the name of the law

noun

An official order laying claim to the use of property or materials.

Usage examples:

I had to make various requisitions for staff and accommodation

verb

Demand the use or supply of (something) by official order.

Usage examples:

The government had assumed powers to requisition cereal products at fixed prices

noun

A formal or official request for something needed

Usage examples:

[ c ] the staff made a requisition for new desks., the army requisitioned all the trucks in the reg…

verb

Take hold of suddenly and forcibly.

Usage examples:

She jumped up and seized his arm

verb

Take hold of; grab

verb

To take something quickly and hold it

Usage examples:

He seized her arm to lead her through the crowd., fig. while she was distracted, i seized the oppor…

verb

Isolate or hide away.

Usage examples:

She is sequestered in deepest dorset

noun

Another term for sequestrate.

Usage examples:

Their property was sequestered by parliament

verb

To keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case

Usage examples:

The judge refused to have the jury sequestered.

verb

Take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met.

Usage examples:

The power of courts to sequestrate the assets of unions

verb

→  sequester

verb

Lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold.

Usage examples:

Mrs morgan took another biscuit

noun

A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time.

Usage examples:

He completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes

verb

Get into one's hands