Definitions For Seize

verb

• Capture the attention or imagination of
• Affect
• Take hold of; grab
• Take or capture by force
• Hook by a pull on the line
• Take possession of by force, as after an invasion
• Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
• Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
• To use legal or official power to take (something)
• To get or take (something) in a forceful, sudden, or violent way
• To attack and take control of (a place) by force or violence