Usually means: Takes hold of forcefully, controls.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word seizes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. seizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. seizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. seizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Seizes, seizes: Wordnik
  5. seizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. seizes: Wiktionary
  7. seizes: Dictionary.com
  8. seizes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. seizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seizes: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seizes: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seizes: Idioms

(Note: See seize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (seize)

verb:  (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
verb:  (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
verb:  (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
verb:  (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
verb:  (intransitive) To have a seizure.
verb:  (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
verb:  (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
verb:  (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
verb:  (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
verb:  (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”). [(transitive, law) To vest ownership of an estate in land (to someone).]
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