seize : Idioms & Phrases

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seize on

  • verb adopt
    fasten on; hook on; take up; latch on.
    • take up new ideas
WordNet

seize with teeth

  • verb to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
    bite.
    • Gunny invariably tried to bite her
WordNet

To be seized of

  • to have possession, or right of possession; as, A B was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale. "Whom age might see seized of what youth made prize." Chapman.
Webster 1913

To seize on ∨ upon

  • to fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession of suddenly and forcibly.
Webster 1913