seize

seize

(Apprehend), verb apprehendere, arrest, arrest with authority, capture, catch, comprehendere, detain by criminal process, imprison, incarcerate, jail, put in duress, rapere, take, take in, take into custody, take prisoner

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seize

(Confiscate), verb annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, capture, cause to be forfeited, commandeer, deerive of, dispossess, disseise, distrain, expropriate, grasp, impound, impress, mulct, pillage, pirate, pounce upon, put in possession, sequester, sequestrate, take, take possession of, usurp, wrest
Associated concepts: attachment, execution on property, garnishment, seize property

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See also: abridge, accept, acquire, adopt, annex, apprehend, arrest, arrogate, capture, carry away, comprehend, confiscate, construe, deprive, despoil, distrain, divest, embrace, garnish, grapple, harry, hijack, impound, impress, impropriate, kidnap, levy, loot, obsess, obtain, occupy, pilfer, pirate, plunder, possess, preempt, prey, procure, purloin, receive, repossess, rob, takeover, usurp

seize

1 to take legal possession of someone or something.

2 to take into custody.