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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

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

seize

1 to take legal possession of someone or something.

2 to take into custody.

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In the first part of the episode, Bigger's "absent" hand can be seen acting as the male agent, seizing upon the equally "absent" hapless male member, working its will upon it, regardless.

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Seizing upon so-called rational expectations theory, they argued that multi-year tax cuts would prompt investors to sink money into markets on the basis of an expectation of lower tax rates in the future.

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