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seizure
has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law,medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease
Examples "he suffered an epileptic seizure" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)Something of this can be learned from `` The_Way_to_the_Churchyard '' ( 1901 ) , an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)Since his seizure , Scotty had had little appetite ; yet his changed appearance , surprisingly , was one of plumpness . Altogether he had , since the seizure , the appearance of a boy who overindulged in food and took no exercise . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
Synonyms Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O_'_Banion gang 's seizure from a West_Side marshalling_yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $ 100000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition_era - the Sibley warehouse robbery , which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation . Related terms acquiring apprehension conquest enslavement usurpation appropriate |
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) the act of taking of a person by force
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[ noun ] (law) the taking possession of something by legal process
Related terms appropriation impoundment confiscation impress recapture distress impound |
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