SEIZE

grab, seize

(verb) capture the attention or imagination of; “This story will grab you”; “The movie seized my imagination”

seize, clutch, get hold of

(verb) affect; “Fear seized the prisoners”; “The patient was seized with unbearable pains”; “He was seized with a dreadful disease”

seize, prehend, clutch

(verb) 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”

seize

(verb) take or capture by force; “The terrorists seized the politicians”; “The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages”

seize

(verb) hook by a pull on the line; “strike a fish”

appropriate, capture, seize, conquer

(verb) 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”

impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize

(verb) 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”

assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

seize (third-person singular simple present seizes, present participle seizing, simple past and past participle seized)

(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.

Synonyms: clasp, grasp, grip, Thesaurus:grasp

(transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).

Synonym: jump on

(transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).

Synonyms: arrogate, commandeer, confiscate

(transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.

(transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.

(transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.

(intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).

(intransitive) To have a seizure.

(intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.

(UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

(law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).

Source: Wiktionary

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Seize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seized; p. pr. & vb. n. Seizing.] Etym: [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.

2. To take possession of by force. At last they seize The scepter, and regard not David's sons. Milton.

3. To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient. Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul. Pope.

4. (law)

Definition: To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.

5. To fasten; to fix. [Obs.] As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser.

6. To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.

7. (Naut.)

Definition: To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

Note: This word, by writers on law, is commonly written seise, in the phrase to be seised of (an estate), as also, in composition, disseise, disseisin. To be seized of, to have possession, or right of possession; as, A B was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale. "Whom age might see seized of what youth made prize." Chapman.

– To seize on or upon, to fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession of suddenly and forcibly.

Syn.

– To catch; grasp; clutch; snatch; apprehend; arrest; take; capture.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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