Definition of seize

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Seize (v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods..

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Garroter :: Garroter (n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him..
Fishhawk :: Fishhawk (n.) The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard..
Grab :: Grab (v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
Seize :: Seize (v. t.) To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
Seizer :: Seizer (n.) One who, or that which, seizes..
Reseize :: Reseize (v. t.) To take possession of, as lands and tenements which have been disseized..
Grapple :: Grapple (v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another..
Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody..
Upcaught :: Upcaught (a.) Seized or caught up.
Hent :: Hent (v. t.) To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.
Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished..
Prehend :: Prehend (v. t.) To lay hold of; to seize.
Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait..
Forceps :: Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc..
Seized :: Seized (imp. & p. p.) of Seiz.
Usurp :: Usurp (v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him..
Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game..
Swoop :: Swoop (n.) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him..
Chop :: Chop (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
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