(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
Most likely to distract from some other group getting ready to seize the throne when it comes. I'd be astonished if there weren't vultures circling over the Kremlin!
The mob boss in the White House dumped toxic rubble on a public DC golf course he wants to seize for himself: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
to seize smuggled goods
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To get possession of by force; to capture.
(transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
(legal, transitive) To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it.
Mathis Turgeon-Roy, Mohammed Shakir, Zachary Louis-Seize, Raphael St-Gelais: Detectivity and bandwidth limits of cooled and uncooled light detection using nanomechanical resonators https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01674 htt…
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(transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
to seize a ship after libeling
“Most likely to distract from some other group getting ready to seize the throne when it comes. I'd be astonished if there weren't vultures circling over the Kremlin!”
“The mob boss in the White House dumped toxic rubble on a public DC golf course he wants to seize for himself: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...”
“Mathis Turgeon-Roy, Mohammed Shakir, Zachary Louis-Seize, Raphael St-Gelais: Detectivity and bandwidth limits of cooled and uncooled light detection using nanomechanical resonators https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01674 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01674”
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“Here's a novel idea. Seize their assets and then throw them in jail anyway.”
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(transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
a panic seized the crowd
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