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seizingverbpresent participle of seize to have a clear idea ofa critic with a sharp intellect that is able to seize the most subtle nuances of a work of art appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching, catching on (to), cognizing, compassing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, discerning, getting, grasping, grokking, intuiting, knowing, making, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging, understanding absorbing, digesting, taking inrealizingfathoming, penetrating, piercing picking up on missing misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misinterpreting, misperceiving, misreading, mistaking, misunderstanding to take or keep under one's control by authority of lawseized the leaders of one of the city's major drug rings apprehending, arresting, busting(slang), collaring, nabbing, nailing, nicking(British slang), picking up, pinching, pulling in, restraining, running in bagging, capturing, catching, getting, grabbing, grappling, hooking, landing, snapping (up), snaring, snatching, trappingcommitting, confining, detaining, holding, immuring, imprisoning, incarcerating, interning, jailing, jugging, locking (up)binding, enchaining, fettering, handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling)rearrestingremanding discharging emancipating, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, releasing, springingunbinding, unchaining to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forciblyseized the escaping balloon just before it got out of reach bagging, capturing, catching, collaring, copping(slang), corralling, getting, glomming, grabbing, grappling, hooking, landing, nabbing, nailing, netting, nobbling(British slang), rapping, snagging, snapping (up), snaring, snatching, trapping gloving, haltering, lassoing, ropingapprehending, arresting, detainingbaying, corneringclasping, clutching, fastening (on), fisting, grasping, gripping, holding, latching (on or onto), securingrending, wrestingenmeshing(also immeshing), ensnaring, entangling, entrapping, meshingabducting, kidnapping(also kidnaping), spiriting (away or off) taking hold (of) missing discharging, freeing, liberating, releasingdropping, loosening, unhanding to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightRichard III seized the English throne from his brother Edward in 1483 appropriating, arrogating, commandeering, converting, expropriating, pirating, preempting, pressing, taking over, usurping annexing, attaching, claiming, confiscating, impounding, repossessing, sequesteringassuming, collaring, grabbing, grasping, snatching, stealing, wrenching, wrestingdespoiling, looting, pillagingencroaching, infringing, invading, occupying, preoccupying, trespassingembezzling, misapplying, misappropriating, misusing, peculating in the 14th century |