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English

1. 🔊 affect
   “Fear seized the prisoners”
2. 🔊 take hold of
   “The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter”
3. 🔊 take or capture by force
   “The terrorists seized the politicians”
4. 🔊 hook by a pull on the line
   “strike a fish”
5. 🔊 capture the attention or imagination of
   “This story will grab you”
6. 🔊 take possession of by force, as after an invasion
   “the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants”
7. 🔊 seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
   “He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town”
8. 🔊 take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
   “The FBI seized the drugs”

Spanish

1. 🔊 agazapar to seize, to grab
2. 🔊 incautarse to seize, commandeer
3. 🔊 apropiar to seize, take hold of
4. 🔊 coger to seize, arrest; to overtake
5. 🔊 apresar to seize, capture (especially with claws or talons)
6. 🔊 apoderar to seize, to gain, to get hold of, to get one's hands on

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