impound
verb (used with object)
to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
impounds
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present tense formof impound (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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If a towing company impounds the vehicle of a servicemember, they are required to first obtain a court order before any sale of the car.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Servicing companies collect monthly payments, pay money for real estate taxes and insurance from escrow impounds that they collect, and issue a release of lien or mortgage upon the complete payoff of the loan.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022
The National Inventory of Dams contains neither the hazard classification nor a condition for the Rockwall-Forney Dam, which impounds Lake Ray Hubbard to supply water to more than 1 million people in the Dallas area.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
The Guajataca Dam, which impounds a 4-kilometer-long lake, was declared unsafe, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 26, 2017
No beadle here impounds you, to suit his crabbed mood; No strife profanes our little church, tho' there it rages high, But then we have no little church, and that, perhaps, is why!
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
