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1. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
2. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
3. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
4. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
5. (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
6. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
8. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
9. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
10. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
11. (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
12. (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
13. (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.