Synonyms for seizing
ˈsi zɪŋseiz·ing

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1. seizingnoun

   small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together

   Synonyms:
   prehension, grasping, taking hold

2. grasping, taking hold, seizing, prehensionnoun

   the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

   Synonyms:
   prehension, grasping, taking hold

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1. co-opt

   to appropriate for one's own purpose

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "seizing":

   confiscating, seize

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1. Michael Evenson:

   Thanks to Save the Redwoods League for seizing on any opportunity to protect lands on the Lost Coast that are vital to its conservation, but PGE getting a green merit badge after all the destruction they’re doing ... is not palatable.

2. Caitlyn Tempalsky:

   When I think of not just the 18 people that were charged with things, but all the other people that were there -- girls, too -- I don't understand how any of them could stand there and watch someone clearly injured and unconscious, seizing, and not do anything about it, hunched over in pain, and to read that people are snapchatting ?

3. Dean Baquet:

   Seizing the phone records of journalists profoundly undermines press freedom, it threatens to silence the sources we depend on to provide the public with essential information about what the government is doing.

4. Antony Blinken:

   Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak.

5. John Amatt:

   Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional.