📖 WordNook

seize

verb
  1. capture the attention or imagination of
    grab
  2. affect
    “Fear seized the prisoners”
    get hold of
  3. take hold of
    clutch
  4. take or capture by force
    “The terrorists seized the politicians”
  5. hook by a pull on the line
  6. take possession of by force, as after an invasion
    “the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants”
    capture
  7. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
    “The FBI seized the drugs”
    confiscate
  8. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
    assume