Word Finder - seized

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To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.

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• clasp
• grasp
• grip

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To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).

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• jump on

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

example

to seize a ship after libeling

synonyms

• arrogate
• commandeer
• confiscate

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To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.

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a fever seized him

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

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to seize or stop one rope on to another

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To fasten, fix.

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

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to seize on the neck of a horse

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To have a seizure.

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

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Rust caused the engine to seize, never to run again.

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To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

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

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This Court will remain seized of this matter.

The air around her seized her and shoved her to her knees.

Mr. O'Hara seized the opportunity to speak.

Rhyn seized on his words.

Purple magic seized him, bound him, and lifted him into the air.

The Other's body seized up then went limp, its head lolling back, as it lost the ability to move.

He was seized by panic and could not go where it was dangerous.

A wild impulse to jump seized me, but terror held me fast.

Princip seized the opportunity and fired into the open car at a range of five feet, killing them both.

Panic seized her at the thought of floating through space until her air ran out.

Jackson seized every opportunity to point out the upsides, and tried his best to lighten her mood.

Her body seized, then fell limp.

It was seized in November 1897 by the German fleet, nominally to secure reparation for the murder of two German missionaries in the province of Shantung.

In 456 it was seized by Genseric. It was retaken Byzantine period.

Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion.

The government seized the opportunity.

Then he sprang up quickly and seized it by the tail.

As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its former position.

Pierre, however, seized her and lifted her in his arms.

His body seized suddenly, and he dropped to his knees, doubled over.

The Syrians seized Gilead, crossed over into Palestine, and occupied the land.

When their forces met at Jericho, Hyrcanus, finding that the bulk of his following deserted to Aristobulus, fled with those who remained to the tower Antonia and seized Aristobulus's wife and children as hostages for his own safety.

The people of Alexandria seized the opportunity for an attack upon the Jews.

When the news of the troubles at Caesarea reached Jerusalem, it became known also that Florus had seized seventeen talents of the temple treasure (66).

In Philo, Alexandrian Judaism had already seized upon Plato as " the Attic Moses," and done its best to combine his speculations with the teaching of his Jewish prototype.

In 1526 the Moguls descended on India from Transoxiana and seized the throne of Delhi.

Four years later Thebes used her new predominance in central Greece to restore the Trachinians, who retained Heraclea until 37 1, when Jason of Pherae seized and dismantled it.

Arouj came to Algiers, caused Selim to be assassinated, and seized the town.

After Lincoln was elected in 1860 he chose Seward for his secretary 1 In 1837 the vessel `"Caroline," which had been used by the Canadian insurgents, was seized by the Canadian authorities in American territory and was destroyed.

The Scots under Leslie followed him, occupied Doon Hill commanding the town, and seized the passes between Dunbar and Berwick which Cromwell had omitted to secure.

The debtor being seized for debt could nominate as mancipium or hostage to work off the debt, his wife, a child, or slave.

Hence the Code allowed a proviso to be inserted in the marriage contract, that the wife should not be seized for her husband's pre-nuptial debts; but enacted that then he was not responsible for her pre-nuptial debts, and, in any case, that both together were responsible for all debts contracted after marriage..

The king seized the opportunity to demand the return of Michal, his wife.

But the guerilla tactics of the wily klepht were powerless against Ibrahim, who marched northward, and, avoiding Nauplia for the present, seized Tripolitsa, and made this the base from which his columns marched to devastate the country far and wide.

On the death of Henry, Conde returned to France, and intrigued against the regent, Marie de' Medici; but he was seized, and imprisoned for three years (1616-1619).

But Count Amadeus of Savoy not merely seized (1287) the castle built by the bishops (about 1219) on the Ile, but also (1288) the office of vicedominus [vidomne], the official through whom the bishop exercised his minor judicial rights.

Albert then declared she was his lawful wife; and subsequently, during his absence, she was seized by order of Duke Ernest and condemned to death for witchcraft.

He then attacked the city itself; but, finding it too strong to be seized by a coup de main, he raised the siege on condition of having his captured soldiers exchanged for the children of some of the principal citizens who had fallen into his hands.

On the following day he was seized with an attack of gout in the stomach,, and on the 2nd of January 1805 he died at his seat, Baylis, near Salt Hill, Windsor.

In the king's death in 1458 the succession was disputed, and James, with the help of the sultan of Egypt, seized the island.

He then set out to establish his authority in Spoleto, but on the way was seized with paralysis.

Hardly were they in circulation throughout the Frankish Empire when it happened that a pope, Nicholas I., was elected who was animated by the same spirit as that which tunities for intervening in the affairs not only of the Western but of the Eastern Church, and he seized upon them with great decision.

The Rhine practically formed the boundary between Gauls and Germans, though one Gaulish tribe, the Menapii, is said to have been living beyond the Rhine at its mouth, and shortly before the arrival of Caesar an invading force of Germans had seized and settled down in what is now Alsace, 72 B.C. At this time the Gauls were being pressed by the Germans along the whole frontier, and several of Caesars campaigns were occupied with operations, either against the Germans, or against Gaulish tribes set in motion by the Germans.

Otto, who did not suspect how deep were the designs of the conspirators, paid a visit to Mairiz, where he was seized and was compelled to take certain solemn pledges which, after his escape, he repudiated.

This alone would have shaken their authority, for, during their absence, the great vassals seized rights which were afterwards difficult to recover.

The French king seized Metz, which was part of the spoil promised to him by his allies, and Charles made an attempt to regain the city.

At the age of twenty he obtained from Zaman Shah, the king of Afghanistan, a grant of Lahore, which he seized by force of arms in 1799.

Part of Norway was first seized after the united Danes and Swedes had defeated and slain King Olaf Trygvesson at the battle of Svolde (1000); and between 1028 and 1035 Canute the Great added the whole kingdom to his own; but the union did not long survive him.

At the request of the pope he was seized by order of the emperor Frederick, then in Italy, and delivered to the prefect of Rome, by whom he was condemned to death.

The downfall of Servia in 1389 left the city without a guardian, and, after being seized and abandoned by Venice and Hungary in turn, it passed under Venetian rule in 1420.

His papers, seized after the fall of Delhi, are full of senile complaint of the disrespect and discourtesy which he suffered from them.