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English Dictionary: seize |
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2 results for seize |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- seize
- v
- take hold of; grab; "The sales clerk quickly seized the
money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"
Synonym(s): seize, prehend, clutch
- take or capture by force; "The terrorists seized the politicians"; "The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages"
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle"
Synonym(s): appropriate, capture, seize, conquer
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
Synonym(s): impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
Synonym(s): assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate
- hook by a pull on the line; "strike a fish"
- affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
Synonym(s): seize, clutch, get hold of
- capture the attention or imagination of; "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination"
Synonym(s): grab, seize
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Seize \Seize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seized}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Seizing}.] [OE. seisen, saisen, OF. seisir, saisir, F.
saisir, of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. set. The meaning
is properly, to set, put, place, hence, to put in possession
of. See {Set}, v. t.]
1. To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or
grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
For by no means the high bank he could seize.
--Spenser.
Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The
royalties and rights of banished Hereford? --Shak.
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