seize : Idioms & Phrases
seize on
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verb adopt
fasten on; hook on; take up; latch on.
- take up new ideas
WordNet
seize with teeth
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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.
