seizure

English

Alternative forms

• seisure (obsolete)

Etymology

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English seize

English -ure

English seizure

From seize + -ure.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.ʒə(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ʒɚ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.ʒə(ɹ)/, [ˈsɪi.ʒə(ɹ)]
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) IPA^(key): /ˈsizjʊɚ/
• Rhymes: -iːʒə(ɹ)

Noun

seizure (countable and uncountable, plural seizures)

1. senses related to possession
   1. The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.

      Antonyms: abandonment, release

      Synonym: taking

      the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

      The search warrant permitted the seizure of evidence.

      • 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter VII, in For the Term of His Natural Life:

        As yet there had been no alarm of fever. The three seizures had excited some comment, however, and had it not been for the counter-excitement of the burning ship, it is possible that Pine's precaution would have been thrown away

   2. The state of being seized or of having been taken.

      Antonym: abandonment

      The continued seizure of the car is a violation of my rights.

   3. That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

      The seizure includes various belongings taken from his house and his office.

   4. (obsolete) A retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.
      • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

        Make o'er thy honour by a deed of trust, / And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.

2. senses related to sensation
   1. A sudden onset of pain or emotion.

      He felt the seizure of pain when the heart attack began.

   2. (medicine, pathology) A sudden attack or convulsion; the physical manifestation of the abnormal electrical discharges in the brain characteristic of epilepsy.

      epileptic seizure

      I haven't had a seizure since I started that medication.

      Seizures can be caused by exposure to certain poisons or toxins.

   3. (medicine, neurology) An abnormal electrical discharge in the brain, as is typical of epilepsy.

Derived terms

• absence seizure
• antiseizure
• interseizure
• Jacksonian seizure
• microseizure
• nonseizure
• postseizure
• preseizure
• pseudopseudoseizure
• pseudoseizure
• psychogenic nonepileptic seizure
• reseizure
• seizural
• seizure dog
• seizureless
• seizurelike
• subseizure

Translations

act of taking possession, as by force or right of law

• Armenian: բռնագրավում (hy) (bṙnagravum), բռնազավթում (hy) (bṙnazavtʻum)
• Azerbaijani: zəbt (az), müsadirə (az)
• Bulgarian: конфискация (bg) f (konfiskacija)
• Catalan: apropiació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奪取 / 夺取 (zh) (duóqǔ), 佔用 / 占用 (zh) (zhànyòng), 沒收 / 没收 (zh) (mòshōu)

• Danish: beslaglæggelse c
• Finnish: pidätys (fi)
• French: saisie (fr) f
• Georgian: კონფისკაცია (ḳonpisḳacia), ჩამორთმევა (čamortmeva), დაყადაღება (daq̇adaɣeba), მიტაცება (miṭaceba), ხელში ჩაგდება (xelši čagdeba), ამოღება (amoɣeba)
• German: Beschlagnahme (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἁρπαγή f (harpagḗ)

• Hindi: अधिग्रहण m (adhigrahaṇ)
• Hungarian: (by law) lefoglalás (hu), elkobzás (hu), zár alá vétel, birtokba vétel, zárolás (hu), (grasping physically) megragadás (hu), megmarkolás, elvétel (hu), (capture, occupation) elfoglalás (hu), bevétel (hu)
• Indonesian: penyitaan (id)
• Irish: glacadh m, urghabháil f, gabháil m, forghabháil f
• Japanese: 奪取 (ja) (だっしゅ, dasshu)
• Norwegian: inndragning m
• Persian: مصادره (fa) (mosâdere)
• Portuguese: apreensão (pt) f, apropriação (pt) f (of things)
• Romanian: confiscare (ro) f
• Russian: захва́т (ru) m (zaxvát), взя́тие си́лой n (vzjátije síloj), взя́тие (ru) n (vzjátije)
• Scottish Gaelic: glacadh m
• Spanish: apropiación (es) f, incautación (es) f, decomiso (es) m, comiso (es) m, peindra (es) f (disused)
• Tagalog: pagsamsam
• Turkish: ele geçirme, gasp (tr)

sudden attack or convulsion — see also seize

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: tutma, qıcolma
• Bulgarian: припадък (bg) m (pripadǎk)
• Catalan: atac (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發作 / 发作 (zh) (fāzuò)

• Czech: záchvat (cs) m
• Danish: anfald (da) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kohtaus (fi)
• French: attaque (fr) f, crise (fr) f
• Georgian: მწვავე შეტევა (mc̣vave šeṭeva), უეცარი შეტევა (uecari šeṭeva), შეტევა (šeṭeva)
• German: Anfall (de) m
• Hebrew: הֶתְקֵף (he) m (hetqéf)
• Hindi: दौरा (hi) m (daurā)
• Hungarian: roham (hu)
• Icelandic: krampaflog n, flog (is) n
• Indonesian: kejang-kejang, kejang (id)
• Irish: gabhlán m, taom m
• Italian: convulsioni (it)
• Japanese: 発作 (ja) (ほっさ, hossa), 発病 (ja) (はつびょう, hatsubyō), 急病 (ja) (きゅうびょう, kyūbyō)
• Khmer: ប្រឆ្ងិត (km) (prɑcŋət), ស្កន្ទ (km) (skɑn), អបមារ (a’pa’maa), អបមារ (ɑɑp mie)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خوو (xû)

• Lithuanian: priepuolis
• Macedonian: конвулзија f (konvulzija)
• Māori: hukihuki, hūkeke
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: iichʼąh, ashchʼąh
• Norwegian: krampe (no) m or f

  Bokmål: anfall (no) n

  Nynorsk: anfall n

• Persian: تشنج (fa) (tašanoj)
• Plautdietsch: Aunfaul m
• Polish: napad (pl) m
• Portuguese: convulsão (pt) f
• Russian: припа́док (ru) m (pripádok), при́ступ (ru) m (prístup)
• Serbo-Croatian: konvulzije, konvulzivna ataka f, konvulzivni napad m
• Spanish: convulsión (es) f, unas convulsiones f pl, unos espasmos m pl, ataque convulsivo m, ataque convulso m, chiripiorca (es) f (Latin America), chiripiolca f (festive, Latin America)
• Swahili: kifafa (sw)
• Swedish: anfall (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kriz (tr), nöbet (tr)
• Urdu: دورہ m (daurā)
• Vietnamese: cơn động kinh, giật kinh phong

sudden onset of pain or emotion

• Danish: anfald (da) n
• Finnish: kohtaus (fi)
• French: attaque (fr) f
• German: Anfall (de) m
• Hungarian: roham (hu)
• Irish: taom m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smerteanfall n

  Nynorsk: smerteåtak

• Plautdietsch: Aunfaul m
• Portuguese: ataque (pt) m
• Russian: при́ступ (ru) m (prístup)
• Turkish: kriz (tr)

that which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed

• Hungarian: elkobzott holmi/áru/tárgy/dolog

Verb

seizure (third-person singular simple present seizures, present participle seizuring, simple past and past participle seizured)

1. (informal, intransitive) To experience an epileptic seizure.
   • 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 9:

     My doctor prescribed Namility. It made my vision blurry, I told him. He said keep taking it, it'll stop. Next day at work I seizured in the middle of an order.

Synonyms

• seize

References

• Search and seizure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• seizure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia