impound 的 2 个定义
- to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
- to confine within an enclosure or within limits: water impounded in a reservoir.
- to seize and retain in custody of the law, as a document for evidence.
- money, property, etc., that has been impounded: a sale of impounds by the police department.
impound 近义词
confine
更多impound例句
- “We searched all the impound lots in the city, and there they were,” Alvarado said.
- “It is an outrage that DEA is using finite taxpayer dollars to impound legal industrial hemp seeds,” he said.
- It forbids the government to impound weapons in the wake of a national emergency.
- They were first opened to admit the ship, and then closed to impound the water that flows up through the bottom of the lock.
- These cows he used to impound, and had great trouble in the matter.
- In this case the game is the caribou or reindeer, but no rope fence would serve to impound these.
- It can be shown that the area of the reservoir necessary to impound water enough to produce 100 horse-power would be 40 acres.
- Before such a dredge is launched, a dam is built across the gulch to impound sufficient water.