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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture
- (transitive) to take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)
- (transitive) to take possession of (by force, law etc.)
- (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 (+ or )
- (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.
Exempel
- to seize smuggled goods
- to seize a ship after libeling
- a panic seized the crowd
- a fever seized him
- to seize two fish-hooks back to back
- to seize or stop one rope on to another
- to seize on the neck of a horse
- The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year. (Southey, Bunyan, p. 21)
- Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.
- Rust caused the engine to seize, never to run again.
- ~ the opportunity tarttua tilaisuuteen
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