<title type="display">seize</title>
Pronúncia: siːz
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transitive verb
- [clutch] agafar, agarrar, engrapar.
- Law [person] detenir, agafar.
- [property] embargar.
- [contraband, etc.] requisar, confiscar.
- [territory] apoderar-se de.
- [opportunity] aprofitar sense pensar-s'hi.
- to seize someone by the arm agarrar algú pel braç.
- to be seized with fear ser colpit per la por.
- he was seized with a desire to + infinitive el va prendre un desig de + infinitiu. intransitive verb
- to seize on fixar-se en.
- (idem) [pretext, etc.] valdre's de
- to seize up Mechanics clavar-se.
- they seized upon the writer van acaparar l'escriptor.