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. 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.

2. Chip Roy:

   We can go around and around in circles about trying to talk about and defining socialism, but at its core I was intrigued by an op-ed that I saw not too long ago by a Democrat from Cuba commenting on one of our colleagues, an avowed socialist, and essentially pointing out the extent to which democratic socialism is a lot like the system my family fled except its proponents promised to be nicer when seizing your business. That’s the truth, we can talk about these terms as if they don't matter, but they do. They do matter. They're actually at the core of who we are.

3. 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 ?

4. Laura Woods:

   They were seizing for salaries and policing for profit, police departments saw (asset forfeiture) as a new stream of revenue and my predecessors have abdicated their responsibility because the executive branch raised and spent money without legislative oversight.

5. Ryan Mauro:

   This successful strategy has enabled ISIS to win over the next generation of jihadists, a young radical can feel as if he or she is part of an actual community in the jihadist online world and, unlike Al Qaeda, ISIS can actually claim to be seizing ground and making progress. These videos help ISIS supporters feel as if they are part of an exciting turning point in Islamic history.