SEIZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seizing mean? 

• SEIZING (noun)
  The noun SEIZING has 2 senses:

1. small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together

2. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

  Familiarity information: SEIZING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEIZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("seizing" is a kind of...):

small stuff (any light rope used on shipboard)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grasping; prehension; seizing; taking hold

Hypernyms ("seizing" is a kind of...):

control (the activity of managing or exerting control over something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seizing"):

clasp; clench; clutch; clutches; grasp; grip; hold (the act of grasping)

Derivation:

seize (take hold of; grab)

 Context examples 

"If Mother was only at home!" exclaimed Jo, seizing the book, and feeling that Washington was an immense way off.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He glanced up at it, and then, to our amazement, he sprang from his rock, and, seizing Summerlee by the neck, he tilted his face into the air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had not a moment to lose, but seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, ‘Now is the time!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“You shall not stir,” cried the champion, seizing the inn-keeper in a convulsive grasp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then seizing the shaving glass, he went on: And this is the wretched thing that has done the mischief. It is a foul bauble of man's vanity.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Wot!” said the young man, seizing me by my jacket collar, with a frightful grin.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Seizing my pistol, I was rushing out, when my wife threw her arms round me and held me with convulsive strength.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her fearful curiosity was every moment growing greater; and seizing, with trembling hands, the hasp of the lock, she resolved at all hazards to satisfy herself at least as to its contents.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

They starched two hundred white shirts, with a single gathering movement seizing a shirt so that the wristbands, neckband, yoke, and bosom protruded beyond the circling right hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I recoiled before contemplation of that frightful death, and for a moment I entertained the wild idea of seizing Maud in my arms and leaping overboard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)