impound

Plural: impounds

Verb

Verb Forms: impounded, impounding, impounds

• To seize and hold in legal custody; to take possession of.
• take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
  • "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"
• place or shut up in a pound
• To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
• To hold back.
• To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
• To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest.

Noun

• A place in which impounded things are stored.
• The state of being impounded.
• That which has been impounded.
• Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for payment of property taxes and insurance.

Examples

• His car was impounded after he parked it illegally.
• The judge threatened to impound his dictionary if he kept making up words.
• to impound a document for safekeeping.
• to impound stray cattle
• water impounded by a dam

Synonyms

attach, confiscate, pound, seize, sequester

Related Words

escrow

Anagrams of impound