Confiscate meaning in English

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Definition

to confiscate: to take temporary possession of, using authority verb

The policeman confiscated all the drugs at the party.

Stop eating those sweets or I will confiscate them.

Examples

"Unattended luggage will be confiscated."
"I stocked-up on twenty-four bottles of your cologne before I flew home, but they were confiscated in customs."
"where a student was sent home yesterday after his teacher confiscated a .44 Magnum from the child."

Exercise 1

Trey mentions that he once bought 24 bottles of cologne.
What happened to these bottles of perfumes?

He left them in the cloakroom in the airport by mistake.

He dropped them whilst trying to catch his plane.

They were seized and kept by officials at the airport.

They exploded in his luggage when he went through the security check.

I don't know

Trey mentions that he once bought 24 bottles of cologne.
What happened to these bottles of perfumes?

He left them in the cloakroom in the airport by mistake.

Trey does not mention going to a cloakroom in the dialogue. He did not leave the perfumes in a cloakroom at the airport. A "cloakroom" is the room in which coats are kept in a public place (a museum or restaurant for example).

He dropped them whilst trying to catch his plane.

Trey does not mention running through the airport in the dialogue, nor does he mention "dropping" the bottles. To drop something is to physically lose control of it, so that it falls. This is not what happened to the bottles of perfumes.

They were seized and kept by officials at the airport.

Trey says that the perfume was "confiscated in customs". This means that customs officials took the perfume bottles as Trey was breaking international regulations or laws by trying to bring them back to the States. "Customs agents" or "officials" are officers who supervise the transport of goods or materials in between countries, generally stationed at all international airports.

They exploded in his luggage when he went through the security check.

Trey does not mention the bottles exploding when he went through the security check. The verb "to explode" means to burst due to internal pressure. This is not what happened to the perfume.

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