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How to pronounce “seize”
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Pronunciation guide for seize
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of seize with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Katie Couric
and you don't seize that opportunity,
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce seize
Katie Couric
and you don't seize that opportunity,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “seize”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (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.
- (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
- (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- (transitive, obsolete) 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.
- (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
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