seize
Betekenis (Engels)
- (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- (alt-of, alternative, transitive) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
- (transitive) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- (obsolete, transitive) To fasten, fix.
- (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- (intransitive) To have a seizure.
- (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- (ambitransitive) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
Concepten
vastgrijpen
beetkrijgen
in beslag nemen
beslag leggen op
opvorderen
rissen
verbeurd verklaren
konfiskeren
in bezit nemen
aangrijpen
grijpen
Synoniemen
take hold of
take forcibly
catch hold of
take possession of
take by force
Vertalingen
saisir
ergreifen
afferrare
agarrar
agafar
capturarFrequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/siːz/
Etymologie (Engels)
In summary
Earlier seise, from Middle English seisen, sesen, saisen, from Old French seisir (“to take possession of; invest (person, court)”), from Early Medieval Latin sacīre (“to lay claim to, appropriate”) (8th century) in the phrase ad propriam sacire, from Old Low Frankish *sakjan (“to sue, bring legal action”), from Proto-Germanic *sakjaną, *sakōną (compare Old English sacian (“to strive, brawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *sakaną (compare Old Saxon sakan (“to accuse”), Old High German sahhan (“to bicker, quarrel, rebuke”), Old English sacan (“to quarrel, claim by law, accuse”). Cognate to sake and Latin sāgiō (“to perceive acutely”).
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