seizure

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sei=zure

CIDE DICTIONARY

seizure, n. 

•  The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.  [1913 Webster]

  "Make o'er thy honor by a deed of trust,
  And give me seizure of the mighty wealth."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

seizure, n.
1 the act or an instance of seizing; the state of being seized.
2 a sudden attack of apoplexy etc., a stroke.

THESAURUS

seizure

Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abduction, abscess, access, accession, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, acute pain, adoption, affect epilepsy, ague, akinetic epilepsy, amok, anemia, ankylosis, annexation, anointing, anointment, anoxia, apnea, apoplexy, appointment, apprehension, appropriation, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, arrogation, asphyxiation, assignment, assumption, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attack, authorization, autonomic epilepsy, backache, bag, bear hug, bite, blaze, bleeding, blennorhea, blockage, booty, boring pain, breakdown, burst, bust, cachexia, cachexy, capture, cardiac epilepsy, catch, catching, charley horse, chill, chills, clench, clinch, cling, clinging, clonic spasm, clonus, clutch, colic, collaring, commandeering, confiscation, consecration, constipation, convulsion, coronation, cortical epilepsy, coughing, coup, cramp, cramps, crick, cursive epilepsy, cyanosis, cyclone, darting pain, death grip, delegation, deputation, diarrhea, diurnal epilepsy, dizziness, dragnet, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eclampsia, edema, election, emaciation, embrace, empowerment, encroachment, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, eruption, explosion, fainting, falling sickness, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, firm hold, fit, flare-up, flux, focal epilepsy, foothold, footing, forcible seizure, frenzy, fulgurant pain, furor, fury, gale, girdle pain, gnawing, grab, grabbing, grand mal, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, growth, gust, haul, haute mal, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hitch, hold, hug, hurricane, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, hysterical epilepsy, icterus, ictus, impounding, indigestion, inflammation, infringement, insomnia, invasion, iron grip, irruption, itching, jaundice, jumping pain, kidnapping, kink, labored breathing, lancinating pain, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, legitimate succession, lockjaw, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, murderous insanity, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nabbing, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, netting, nip, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, orgasm, outbreak, outburst, pain, pang, paralysis, paroxysm, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, picking up, pinch, playing God, possession, power grab, prehension, prick, pruritus, psychic epilepsy, psychokinesia, psychomotor epilepsy, purchase, rage, rash, reflex epilepsy, rheum, rotatoria, running in, sclerosis, seizing, seizure of power, sensory epilepsy, sequestration, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, sharp pain, shock, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, skin eruption, snatch, snatching, sneezing, sore, spasm, spell, stab, stabbing pain, stitch, stoppage, storm, stroke, succession, tabes, tachycardia, take, taking, taking in, taking into custody, taking over, tardy epilepsy, tempest, tetanus, tetany, thrill, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tight grip, toehold, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, tormen, tornado, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trespass, trespassing, trismus, tumor, turn, tweak, twinge, twitch, ucinate epilepsy, upheaval, upset stomach, usurpation, vertigo, visitation, vomiting, wasting, whirlwind, wrench

ROGET THESAURUS

seizure

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Undueness

N undueness, malum prohibitum, impropriety, illegality, falseness, emptiness of title, invalidity of title, illegitimacy, loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture, usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption, assumption, seizure, stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share, usurper, pretender, undue, unlawful, unconstitutional, illicit, unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified, unentitled, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified, unprivileged, unchartered, illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false, usurped, tortious, undeserved, unmerited, unearned, unfulfilled, forfeited, disfranchised, improper, unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly, unbecoming, misbecoming, seemless, contra bonos mores, not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of, preposterous, pretentious, would-be, filius nullius.