seize
C1UK /siːz/US /siːz/
Meaning
verb
to take somebody/something in your hand suddenly and using force
“seize something from somebody, She tried to seize the gun from him.”
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“She had just had to give him the news that, in retaliation for his outspokenness against his country's regime, his mother had been seized and executed.”
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She had just had to give him the news that, in retaliation for his outspokenness against his country's regime, his mother had been seized and executed.
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