If you seize something, you take hold of it quickly, firmly, and forcefully. 'Leigh,' he said, seizing my arm to hold me back. [VERB noun] ...an otter seizing a fish. [VERB noun] When a group of people seize a place or seize control of it, they take control of it quickly and suddenly, using force. More @Wikipedia
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