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Seizing   /sˈizɪŋ/   Listen
Seizing

noun
1.
Small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together.
2.
The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles).  Synonyms: grasping, prehension, taking hold.



Seize

verb
(past & past part. seized; pres. part. seizing)
1.
Take hold of; grab.  Synonyms: clutch, prehend.  "She clutched her purse" , "The mother seized her child by the arm" , "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"
2.
Take or capture by force.  "The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages"
3.
Take possession of by force, as after an invasion.  Synonyms: appropriate, capture, conquer.  "The army seized the town" , "The militia captured the castle"
4.
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority.  Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, sequester.  "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment" , "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
5.
Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession.  Synonyms: arrogate, assume, take over, usurp.  "He usurped my rights" , "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
6.
Hook by a pull on the line.
7.
Affect.  Synonyms: clutch, get hold of.  "The patient was seized with unbearable pains" , "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
8.
Capture the attention or imagination of.  Synonym: grab.  "The movie seized my imagination"



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"Seizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... in most things to the present race—at such a period—and such a period there has been—I can easily conceive that the afanc-crocodile haunted this pool, and that when the elk or bison or wild cow came to drink of its waters the grim beast would occasionally rush forth, and seizing his bellowing victim, would return with it to the deeps before me to luxuriate at his ease upon its flesh. And at a time less remote, when the crocodile was no more, and though the woods still covered the hills, and wild cattle strolled about, men were more numerous than ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow

... would sell his life dearly. He began by throwing off the savages who held him, but he was soon knocked down, and the thief, seizing a sort of stone axe, jumped forward ...
— Godfrey Morgan - A Californian Mystery • Jules Verne

... the attention and protection which the republic bestowed upon it, in repressing and punishing the piracies of the Illyrians and Istrians. These people, who were very expert and undaunted seamen, enriched themselves and their country by seizing and plundering the merchant vessels which frequented the Adriatic and adjacent Mediterranean sea; and their piracies were encouraged, rather than restrained by their sovereigns. At the period to which we allude, they were governed by a queen, ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... advancing towards the dangerous enemy, and he looked back at the doctor, laughed, showing his glistening teeth, and then seizing the broken haft of his spear, he planted one bare foot upon the creature's shoulder, gave a tug or two, and drew it away, to stand looking dolefully at the two pieces of the weapon, which he held together as if to see whether it was possible to ...
— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn

... Judson quite by surprise. For a moment he looked at me in silence, then, with a voice hoarse from passion, he addressed me, saying, "such talk to me! you surely have lost any little sense you ever may have had." Then seizing me roughly by the shoulder he continued: "I'll teach you better manners than all this comes to, my fine fellow, for I'll give you such a flogging as you won't forget in a ...
— Walter Harland - Or, Memories of the Past • Harriet S. Caswell


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