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SEIZING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
Synonyms:
grasping; prehension; seizing; taking hold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
Sense 2
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb seize
Context examples:
"You utterly misinterpret my words," I said, at once seizing his hand: "I have no intention to grieve or pain you—indeed, I have not."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She could not bear such suspense; and hastily seizing a sheet of paper, wrote a short letter to her aunt, to request an explanation of what Lydia had dropt, if it were compatible with the secrecy which had been intended.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I communicated to his majesty a project I had formed of seizing the enemy’s whole fleet; which, as our scouts assured us, lay at anchor in the harbour, ready to sail with the first fair wind.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The old quarrel as to whether Jackson had or had not committed a foul by seizing Mendoza by the hair on the occasion of their battle at Hornchurch, eight years before, came to the front once more.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The right of a lively mind, Fanny, seizing whatever may contribute to its own amusement or that of others; perfectly allowable, when untinctured by ill-humour or roughness; and there is not a shadow of either in the countenance or manner of Miss Crawford: nothing sharp, or loud, or coarse.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Early in the morning, before it was quite light, and when nobody was stirring in the inn, Chanticleer awakened his wife, and, fetching the egg, they pecked a hole in it, ate it up, and threw the shells into the fireplace: they then went to the pin and needle, who were fast asleep, and seizing them by the heads, stuck one into the landlord’s easy chair and the other into his handkerchief; and, having done this, they crept away as softly as possible.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Rather, as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me—something seizing, surprising and revolting—this fresh disparity seemed but to fit in with and to reinforce it; so that to my interest in the man’s nature and character, there was added a curiosity as to his origin, his life, his fortune and status in the world.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The devil take your tongue, Wat!” shouted a tall young man, seizing the last speaker by the collar and giving him an admonitory shake.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I should be glad, Professor Challenger, said he, if you could see your way to make any remarks which may occur to you without seizing me by the chin.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But the big Dutchman frustrated him, seizing him by the nape of the neck and dancing him up and down.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
