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reconfiscate

reconfiscate verb: to confiscate again.

Verb

reconfiscate (third-person singular simple present reconfiscates, present participle reconfiscating, simple past and past participle reconfiscated)

  1. To confiscate again.
    • The laity of England had refused to apostatise; the fautor of his schemes was dead; and then, then, as a last miserable alternative, he dropped from his ambitious height back into the foul slough of avarice, and plied all the arts of threat and of falsehood to reconfiscate the revenues of the see...1883, Martin Rule, The Life and Times of St. Anselm
    • The hooker was pretty well plastered by the time I got to the bar and it was a simple favor to reconfiscate your purse.2001, Robert S. Stone, Dark Waters, →ISBN, page 12

Forms of reconfiscate

third-person singular presentreconfiscates
present participlereconfiscating
past participlereconfiscated
pastreconfiscated

Origin of reconfiscate

From re- + confiscate.

Questions about reconfiscate

What does reconfiscate mean?
Reconfiscate means to confiscate again.
What part of speech is reconfiscate?
Reconfiscate is a verb.
What is the past tense of reconfiscate?
The past tense of reconfiscate is reconfiscated.

Words near reconfiscate in the dictionary

  1. reconfirmation
  2. reconfirmations
  3. reconfirmed
  4. reconfirming
  5. reconfirms
  6. reconfiscate
  7. reconfiscated
  8. reconfiscates
  9. reconfiscating
  10. reconfiscation
  11. reconfiscations

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