Dictionary Entry
seizure
seizure is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
- 2noun
Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.
- 3noun
That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.
- 4noun
the taking possession of something by legal process
- 5noun
the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
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- 6noun
the act of taking of a person by force
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- 7noun
a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease
"he suffered an epileptic seizure"
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