SEIZE ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seize on mean? 

• SEIZE ON (verb)
  The verb SEIZE ON has 1 sense:

1. adopt

  Familiarity information: SEIZE ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEIZE ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adopt

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

fasten on; hook on; latch on; seize on; take up

Context example:

take up new ideas

Hypernyms (to "seize on" is one way to...):

adopt; embrace; espouse; sweep up (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

It is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)