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▸ 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: (transitive, intransitive, 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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confiscate,
capture,
conquer,
impound,
prehend,
sequester,
grab,
take over,
clutch,
appropriate,
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