impound

🇺🇸 /ɪmˈpaʊnd/ 🇬🇧 /ɪmˈpaʊnd/
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verb
R

When the police or an authority takes something, like a car, away from someone and keeps it in a safe place until they can use it again.

The police impounded the car because it was involved in an accident.

경찰은 사고에 연관되어 있기 때문에 자동차를 압수했다.

R

When animals like dogs or cats are picked up from the streets and kept in a place called a pound, until their owners come to get them.

The stray dog was impounded and taken to the pound.

길고양이가 압수되어 수용소로 옮겨졌다.

translation

v. 압수, 수용

어형 변화

3rd Present impounds
Past impounded
Perfect impounded
Progressive impounding