Usually means: Take hold of forcefully, legally.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. seize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. seize, seize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. seize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. seize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. seize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Seize, seize: Wordnik
  7. seize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. seize: Wiktionary
  9. seize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. seize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. seize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. seize: Dictionary.com
  13. seize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. seize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Seize (band), Seize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Seize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. seize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. seize: Rhymezone
  19. seize, seize (m inv): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. seize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. seize: Free Dictionary
  22. seize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. seize: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. seize: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. seize: Legal dictionary
  3. seize: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seize: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. seize: Idioms

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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:  (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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