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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To confine in or as if in a pound: capture and impound stray dogs.
  2. v. To seize and retain in legal custody: impounding disputed electoral ballots.
  3. v. To set aside in a fund rather than spend as prescribed: a governor who impounded monies designated for use by cities.
  4. v. To accumulate and store in a reservoir: By damming the stream, the engineers impounded its waters for irrigation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put, shut, or confine in or as in a pound or close pen; restrain within bounds; confine: as, to impound stray horses, cattle, etc.
  2. To take and retain possession of, as a forged document produced as evidence in a trial and directed to be held in custody of the law, in order that a prosecution may be instituted in respect of it.
  3. To gather and retain (water) in a reservoir, basin, or pond.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
  2. v. transitive, law To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
  3. v. transitive, law, banking To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest.
  4. n. A place in which things are impounded.
  5. n. A state of being impounded.
  6. n. That which has been impounded.
  7. n. law, banking Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for payment of property taxes and insurance.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of some authority such as police or a court

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. place or shut up in a pound
  2. v. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

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