Seize vs Consume - What's the difference?

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Seize is a related term of consume.

As verbs the difference between seize and consume

is that seize is to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture while consume is .

seize

English

Verb

(seiz)

to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture

to take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)

to take possession of (by force, law etc.)

to seize smuggled goods

to seize a ship after libeling

to have a sudden and powerful effect upon

a panic seized the crowd

a fever seized him

(nautical) to bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line

to seize two fish-hooks back to back

to seize or stop one rope on to another

(obsolete) to fasten, fix

to lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon)

to seize on the neck of a horse

The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.'' (''Southey , Bunyan, p. 21)

to have a seizure

* 2012 , Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician

Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.

to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up

Rust caused the engine to seize , never to run again.

(UK) to submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

Derived terms

* be seized of, be seized with * seizable * seize the day * seize on, seize upon * seize up * seizer * seizor

References

* * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----

consume

English

Verb

(consum)

To use.

The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.

To eat.

Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.

To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.

Desire consumed him.

To destroy completely.

The building was consumed by fire.

* Shakespeare

If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.

* Bible, Matthew vi. 20

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .

(obsolete) To waste away slowly.

* Shakespeare

Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.

* 1899 , Kate Chopin, The Awakening :

He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.

Synonyms

* (use) burn (of energy ), use, use up * (eat) devour, eat, swallow * (occupy) occupy, overcome, take over * (destroy) annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building ), wipe out

Derived terms

* consumer