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Is seize a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word seize is a Scrabble US word. The word seize is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is seize a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word seize is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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Yes. The word seize is a Words With Friends word. The word seize is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

SEIZE,

4-letter words (2 found)

SIZE,ZEES,

3-letter words (4 found)

SEE,SEI,SEZ,ZEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ES,IS,SI,ZE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from seize according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of seize

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Definitions and meaning of seize

seize

Etymology

Earlier seise, from Middle English seisen, sesen, saisen, from Old French seisir (“to take possession of; invest (person, court)”), from Early Medieval Latin sacīre (“to lay claim to, appropriate”) (8th century) in the phrase ad propriam sacire, from Old Low Frankish *sakjan (“to sue, bring legal action”), from Proto-Germanic *sakjaną, *sakōną (compare Old English sacian (“to strive, brawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *sakaną (compare Old Saxon sakan (“to accuse”), Old High German sahhan (“to bicker, quarrel, rebuke”), Old English sacan (“to quarrel, claim by law, accuse”). Cognate to sake and Latin sagio (“to perceive acutely”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sēz, IPA(key): /siːz/
  • Rhymes: -iːz
  • Homophones: seas, sees

Verb

seize (third-person singular simple present seizes, present participle seizing, simple past and past participle seized)

  1. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
    Synonyms: clasp, grasp, grip; see also Thesaurus:grasp
  2. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
    Synonym: jump on
  3. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
    Synonyms: arrogate, commandeer, confiscate
  4. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
  5. (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
  6. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
  8. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
  9. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
  10. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
  11. (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
  12. (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
    This Court will remain seized of this matter.
  13. (transitive, intransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • seizure

Translations

References

  • “seize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “seize”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French seze, from Old French seize, seze, from Latin sēdecim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛz/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): [saiz]
  • Rhymes: -ɛz

Numeral

seize (invariable)

  1. sixteen

Derived terms

  • seizième

Related terms

  • six
  • dix

Descendants

  • Louisiana Creole: sèz

Further reading

  • “seize”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French seize, from Latin sēdecim.

Pronunciation

Numeral

seize

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) sixteen

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