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Impound vs Seized - What's the difference?

impound | seized |

As verbs the difference between impound and seized

is that impound is to shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound while seized is (seize).

As a noun impound

is a place in which things are impounded.

impound

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
  • His car got impounded after he'd parked illegally.
  • To hold back, as water by a dam.
  • (legal) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
  • to impound''' stray cattle; to '''impound a document for safe keeping.
  • (transitive, legal, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place in which things are impounded.
  • *
  • A state of being impounded.
  • *
  • That which has been impounded.
  • *
  • (legal, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for payment of property taxes and insurance.
  • See also

    * escrow

    seized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (seize)

  • seize

    English

    Verb

    (seiz)
  • to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture
  • to take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)
  • to take possession of (by force, law etc.)
  • to seize smuggled goods
    to seize a ship after libeling
  • to have a sudden and powerful effect upon
  • a panic seized the crowd
    a fever seized him
  • (nautical) to bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line
  • to seize two fish-hooks back to back
    to seize or stop one rope on to another
  • (obsolete) to fasten, fix
  • to lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon)
  • to seize on the neck of a horse
    The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.'' (''Southey , Bunyan, p. 21)
  • to have a seizure
  • * 2012 , Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician
  • Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.
  • to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up
  • Rust caused the engine to seize , never to run again.
  • (UK) to submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
  • Derived terms

    * be seized of, be seized with * seizable * seize the day * seize on, seize upon * seize up * seizer * seizor