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.

Verb

(remov)

(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

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*(Bible), (w) xix.14:

*:Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark.

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# To replace a dish within a course.

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(label) To murder.

To dismiss a batsman.

(label) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:

*:Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue .

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Karen McVeigh

, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= US rules human genes can't be patented , passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}

To depart, leave.

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*:THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple

(label) To change one's residence; to move.

*(William Shakespeare)

*:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.

*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

*:Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.

*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.20:

*:Shortly after this, my father removed , and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.

To dismiss or discharge from office.

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