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impound

/verb im-pound; noun im-pound/US // verb ɪmˈpaʊnd; noun ˈɪm paʊnd //UK // (ɪmˈpaʊnd) //

扣押,扣留,扣压,封锁

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : money, property, etc., that has been impounded: a sale of impounds by the police department.

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Examples

  • “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.