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Defenition of the word seizure

    • Defenition of the word seizure

      • The official or legally authorized act of taking away possessions or property, often for a violation of law or to enforce a judgment imposed by a court of law.
      • the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
      • the act of taking of a person by force
      • the taking possession of something by legal process
      • a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure"
      • a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease

    Synonyms for the word seizure

      • abduction
      • annexation
      • apprehension
      • arrest
      • attack
      • capture
      • commandeering
      • confiscation
      • convulsion
      • fit
      • gaining control
      • ictus
      • removal
      • spasm

    Similar words in the seizure

      • seizure
      • seizure's
      • seizures

    Hyponyms for the word seizure

      • abduction
      • absence
      • absence seizure
      • apprehension
      • arrest
      • arrogation
      • catch
      • collar
      • confiscation
      • conquering
      • conquest
      • convulsion
      • distraint
      • distress
      • enslavement
      • focal seizure
      • impounding
      • impoundment
      • impress
      • impressment
      • internment
      • kidnapping
      • pinch
      • poundage
      • raptus hemorrhagicus
      • recapture
      • snatch
      • subjection
      • subjugation
      • taking into custody
      • usurpation

    Hypernyms for the word seizure

      • acquiring
      • appropriation
      • attack
      • felony
      • getting

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