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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

没ぼっ収しゅう

bosshuu

to confiscate

Example sentences

  1. 兵隊へいたいたちは彼かれらが征服せいふくした人々ひとびとから食物しょくもつを没収ぼっしゅうした。

    The soldiers seized food from the people they conquered.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 休やすみ中ちゅうに置おき勉べんしてると没収ぼっしゅうされるんだよな。

    If you leave your textbooks at school during the break, they’ll get confiscated.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これにより100万まんもの刀剣とうけんが没収ぼっしゅうされたという。

    After the enforcement of the law, as many as one million swords were allegedly confiscated.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 没収

  • 没drown; sinkOnボツ・モツKunおぼれる・しずむ・ない
  • 収income; obtainOnシュウKunおさめる・おさまる

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