Definitions for seizure

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seizure sei·zure

Spelling: [see-zher]

IPA: /ˈsi ʒər/

Seizure is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in seizure (eeirsuz).

Definitions for seizure

noun

1. the act or an instance of seizing.
2. the state of being seized.
3. a taking possession of an item, property, or person legally or by force.
4. a sudden attack, as of epilepsy or some other disease.

Origin of seizure

First recorded in 1475-85; seize + -ure

Examples for seizure

She goes from bright and happy, to seizure, to zombie after the meds take effect.

Bohun was speechless for a moment, stricken dumb by a second seizure of fury.

But this first seizure was not so severe as to put a final arrest on his activities.

Imagine the impact you might have had if you had also spoken about the Russian seizure of Crimea.

Lady Coryston lived for some eight months after this seizure.

British officials suspect a criminal gang was responsible for the seizure but that he was later sold to ISIS.

The seizure of property began in earnest in 2003 after the arrest of the president of the Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Then Miss Colton told him of her father's seizure and gave him the note for you.

This seizure isn't alarming and there is absolutely no danger of contagion.

Time to end your silence about the seizure of Crimea and the troops massing at the border with eastern Ukraine.