Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which seizes.
- noun A hound trained to seize and hold game, especially wild boars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, seizes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
seizes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship
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Examples
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Among them, this turgid prize-seizer from a writer identified as B. Waldorf:
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In my part of the country it is so much the usual method for the tiger to seize by the nape of the neck, that a native, when asked if he is sure that it was a tiger and not a panther, always puts his hand to the back of his neck, and if he says that the animal was seized by the throat, we invariably assume that the seizer is a panther.
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Simply seizing power is one thing; seizing power in order to pre-empt a US-sponsored coup is another altogether, especially when the seizer in question possesses an undisputed democratic mandate.
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Once upon a time I entered a vineyard to eat of its grapes; and, whilst so doing behold, I saw a falcon stoop upon a partridge and seize him; but the partridge escaped from the seizer and, entering his nest, hid himself there.
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Timms refutes the legend that Kraus responded with stunned silence to Hitler's seizer of power: His career culminated in Third Walpurgis Night, a harsh polemic of Nazi ideology that has proved enduringly influential.
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Timms refutes the legend that Kraus responded with stunned silence to Hitler's seizer of power: His career culminated in Third Walpurgis Night, a harsh polemic of Nazi ideology that has proved enduringly influential.
Yale Press Log: 2006
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He called his new creature Velociraptor mongoliensis to honor these inferred skills, for Velociraptor, means "quick seizer."
Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993
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I knew from past experience that he was a seizer of opportunities; with Jamie about to be hanged, he had not even waited for execution of the sentence before trying to secure me and my about-to-be-inherited property.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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Always a disciple of hearty and strenuous living, he suggested more than casually his own famous character - the intrepid warrior, adventurer, and seizer of thrones, Conan the Cimmerian.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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Partridge; but the latter freed himself from the seizer, and entering his nest, hid himself there.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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