impound
verb (used with object)
to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
had impounded
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past perfectof impound.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It also said a sentence saying France had linked a yacht it had impounded to Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin was false.
From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 2023
Italian authorities announced earlier this month that they had impounded that yacht.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
The latest plane seizure comes 10 days after it emerged that the UK had impounded a private jet linked to a billionaire Russian oligarch.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2022
Several media outlets reported Wednesday that German authorities had impounded Dilbar.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
At the end of the second, the influence that had impounded the comet came, however, into play oppositely, and restored it again to its wandering life and hyperbolic courses.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Robert Chambers
