| 单词 | seize |
| 释义 | seize transitive verb 1. a. usually seise < the lord of the manor seises his heir in land holdings > < the widow should have the third part of a fief of which her husband was seised at the time of their marriage — C.H.McIlwain > b. (1) often seise < we were landowners now, duly seised and possessed — Mark Twain > < entitled to inherit the estate of which said deceased died seized — Detroit Law Journal > < signed to clear the title to other properties of which her father had died seized — G.L.Fake > (2) often seise < temperate men are seized of … wisdom and knowledge — Richard Carew > < the biographer will be seized of all pertinent papers and correspondence > (3) < the House when seized of the matter either gave its decision forthwith after debate or referred the matter to a select committee — T.E.May > < points out that the Council is still officially seized with the dispute eight years after it was settled — Hadassah Newsletter > < the Committee may not, however, consider any matter of which the Security Council is seized and which the Council has not submitted to the Assembly — U.N. Dept. of Public Information > 2. a. < government seized the entire foreign-owned oil industry — R.W.Van Alstyne > < any authorized officer has power to seize any article of food which appears to him unfit — C.R.A.Martin > b. < seized control of steel plants to prevent the scheduled walkout — Mary K. Hammond > < ten of the exhibiting artists have had their paintings seized — New York Times > < authority to seize and impound the agency's funds > 3. a. < the wind ready to seize the hat off my head — Mary Deasy > < the tremendous riches seized in swift attacks on land and water — H.E.Rieseberg > < the military regime which had seized power — Americana Annual > b. < the three men were seized by a large body of Sioux — I.B.Richman > < the determination of the Allied Powers to seize and punish war criminals — R.G.Neumann > 4. a. (1) < ordered his soldiers to shave off their beards so that their enemies might not seize them — F.J.Haskin > < seizing between his teeth the cartilage — G.B.Shaw > (2) < the hero seized her in unaccustomed arms — G.W.Brace > < seized pen and paper — John Irwin > b. < and rise to seize the everlasting prize — W.W.Walford > < seize the leadership of social reform — Current Biography > < seized for the committee the right to report on … national finances — Allan Nevins > c. < seized the opportunity to calculate a number of fresh latitudes — Benjamin Farrington > < they'll seize any excuse to stop work and cut down a tree — Ellen Glasgow > d. < we can only try to seize the meaning of serfdom — R.W.Southern > < the artist … possesses the power of surely and frequently seizing reality — Clive Bell > < there's no one now to grasp my half-seized thought — Donagh MacDonagh > 5. obsolete < the gentleman was seized in my country — Thomas Stafford > 6. a. < suddenly seized with an acute illness — H.G.Armstrong > < the arthritis which had seized him during the summer — Virginia D. Dawson & Betty D. Wilson > b. < he was early seized with the idea of building cars — A.F.Harlow > < a kind of panic seized her — Mary Austin > < seized the popular imagination — Basil Davenport > < conviction seized him — Henry Miller > 7. intransitive verb 1. a. < amassed fortunes, either by seizing on their property, or by selling their persons — G.G.Coulton > b. < seized upon business as their sacrificial goat — B.F.Fairless > < seize on any plan, despite its imperfections, hoping for relief — Dance Observer > < seize upon the drug as a cure for their real or imaginary ailments — Irish Digest > 2. 3. chiefly Britain < the verse seized up, sometimes by sheer surfeit of imagery — C.D.Lewis > < compositions for wind alone often seize up in the middle parts — Edward Sackville-West > Synonyms: see take |
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