verb

• (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
• (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
• (transitive, intransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
• (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”). [(transitive, law) To vest ownership of an estate in land (to someone).]