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adj. - Taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Verb (used without object) : to seize on a rope. ,He must seize on a solution, however risky. ,The engine seized up from cold
  • The wound was bleeding very slightly, and they bound it deftly betwixt them, with their united handkerchiefs and a napkin seized from the table.
  • Robin seized the other hand and kissed it tenderly.
  • Iraq was no garden before Saddam Hussein seized power.
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