Seizure
['siːʒə] or ['siʒɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the taking possession of something by legal process.
(noun.) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; 'he suffered an epileptic seizure'.
Edited by Bernice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
(n.) Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.
(n.) That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.
Editor: Ricky
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Taking, catching, griping, grasping, capture, appropriation.
Inputed by Estella
Definition
n. act of seizing: capture: grasp: the thing seized: a sudden attack.
Checker: Sheena
Examples
- The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The famous diamonds had undergone a famous seizure, it appears, about which Becky, of course, knew nothing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To save Strafford the King plotted for a sudden seizure of London by the army. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A sudden seizure of a different nature from any thing foreboded by her general state, had carried her off after a short struggle. Jane Austen. Emma.
- If I were to see my father in one of these dreadful seizures I am convinced that I should never survive it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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