To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
To have a seizure.
To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
(with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
To seize.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
To pull or twist violently.
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.