seizing
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈsizɪŋ/
- present participle of seize#English|seize
seizing (plural seizings)
- The act of grabbing or taking possession.
- (mostly, in the plural) Something seized.
- The pirates buried their seizings and marked the map with an X.
- A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 36
- Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
- Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
- Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 36
seizing
- That seizes the attention; impressive.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
- It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
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