To put in possession; make possessed; possess: commonly with of before the thing possessed: as, A. B. was seized and possessed of the manor; to seize one's self of an inheritance.To take possession ofBy virtue of a warrant or legal authority: as, to seize smuggled goods; to seize a ship after libeling.By force, with or without right.To lay sudden or forcible hold of; grasp; clutch: either literally or figuratively.To come upon with sudden attack; have a sudden and powerful effect upon: as, a panic seized the crowd; a fever seized him.To fasten; fix.Nautical, to bind, lash, or make fast, as one thing to another, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line; stop: as, to seize two fish-hooks back to back; to seize or stop one rope on to another.Synonyms and To snatch, catch, capture, apprehend, arrest, take, attach.To lay hold in seizure, as by hands or claws: with on or upon.In metallurgy, to cohere.