Word Finder - seizes

definition

To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.

synonyms

• clasp
• grasp
• grip

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To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).

synonyms

• 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.

example

a fever seized him

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

example

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).

example

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.

example

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.

Another government agency that usually has frequent seized vehicle auctions is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which often seizes vehicles as a method to collect for nonpayment of taxes.

If an attempt be made by any enemy to lift the lid, the spider seizes its inner side with his fangs and striking his claws into the walls of the burrow offers the greatest possible resistance to the efforts of the intruder.

It is exceedingly quick in its movements, but seizes its prey by waiting in ambush or stealthily approaching to within springing distance, when it suddenly rushes upon it and tears it to ground with its The Leopard (Felis pardus).

Pairing and oviposition take place on land; the male seizes the female round the waist.

As the down and up strokes run into each other, and the convex surface of the wing is always directed upwards and the concave surface downwards, it follows that the upper surface of the wing evades in a great measure the upper air, while the under surface seizes the nether air.

Taken altogether, the features have a typical character which popular observation seizes with some degree of correctness, as in the recognition of the Jewish countenance in a European city.

The opening of the mouth is small, and from it the echidna puts forth its long slender tongue, lubricated with a viscous secretion, by means of which it seizes the ants and other insects on which it feeds.

In certain species of Myrmeleonidae, such as Dendroleon pantheormis, the larva, although resembling that of Myrmeleon structurally, makes no pitfall, but seizes passing prey from any nook or crevice in which it shelters.

He seizes upon the fundamental incompatibility of a consciousness which can apprehend, and yet is separated from, the "thing-in-itself."

Then he bursts into one of his wild furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others.

Sulphur is of an oily and fiery nature; in combination with salt by its fiery nature it arouses a desire in the latter by means of which it attracts mercury, seizes it, holds it, and in combination produces other bodies.

Argyroneta feeds principally upon flies or gnats, which it seizes from below as they light upon the surface of the water.

In short, Neoplatonism seizes on the aspiration of the human soul after a higher life, and treats this psychological fact as the key to the.

He seizes upon the most spiritual passages of the prophets, and revives and deepens them.

In point of doctrine, they differ in their view of the relation between God Vishnu and the human soul; whilst the former sect define it by the ape theory, which makes the soul cling to God as the young ape does to its mother, the latter explain it by the cat theory, by which Vishnu himself seizes and rescues the souls as the mother cat does her young ones.

But the Stoics were not slow to exalt the part of reason, which seizes upon the generic qualities, the essential nature of things.