Seize vs Fear - What's the difference?
seize | fear | Related terms |
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 have a sudden and powerful effect upon
(nautical) to bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line
(obsolete) to fasten, fix
to lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon)
to have a seizure
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to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up
(UK) to submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
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(lb) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
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, chapter=18 (lb) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
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(lb) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.
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To cause fear to; to frighten.
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(label) To feel fear about (something); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
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, title= (lb) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
(lb) Regret.
(lb) To be anxious or solicitous for.
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(lb) To suspect; to doubt.
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Seize is a related term of fear.
As a verb seize
is to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.As a noun fear is
grass.seize
English
Verb
(seiz)- to seize smuggled goods
- to seize a ship after libeling
- a panic seized the crowd
- a fever seized him
- to seize two fish-hooks back to back
- to seize or stop one rope on to another
- 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)
- 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.
- Rust caused the engine to seize , never to run again.
Derived terms
* be seized of, be seized with * seizable * seize the day * seize on, seize upon * seize up * seizer * seizorReferences
fear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feer, fere, fer, from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) feren, from (etyl) , from the noun.Noun
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear .
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- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- I will put my fear in their hearts.
- I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Synonyms
* , terror, fright * , anxiety, apprehension * (extreme veneration) awe, reverence, veneration * See alsoDerived terms
* affear * fearful * fearless * fearmonger * fearnaught * fearsome * no fearVerb
(en verb)- Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes // For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage
- Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
- I greatly fear my money is not safe.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear —man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
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- The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, thereforeI fear you.
- Fear you not her courage?