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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are impounded" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where items, vehicles, or animals are taken into custody or held by authorities, often due to legal reasons.
Example: "The vehicles that were parked illegally are impounded until the fines are paid."
Alternatives: "are seized" or "are confiscated".
Dictionary
are impounded
verb
To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
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Cars, as the prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow once put it, are impounded by the drifts.
Once vehicles are impounded, California law requires towing companies to hold them for 30 days.
Its waters are impounded in a narrow spillway by the delta of the Whetstone River.
Tells how the cars are hauled away; where they are impounded; how an owner goes about recovering his car; fines imposed, etc.
Irrigation lakes are impounded by Canton Dam (1948) on the main stream in Oklahoma and by Fort Supply Dam (1942) on Wolf Creek.
Although only fifteen per cent of the drugs that enter Iran are impounded by the police, this amount includes about eighty-five per cent of all the opiates seized globally.
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But what we are doing is we are impounding hardware so that we can preserve evidence.
We are impounding data here that represented the last data that we received from the crew.
Candy from Denmark was impounded 82 times.
The Alberta herd has been impounded.
The pickup truck was impounded by the police.
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