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seize upon

alt. 1 To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly. 2 To take up, embrace, enact, or turn eagerly to (a plan, idea, ideology, cause, practice, method, etc.); to grasp, understand, and accept quickly; to adopt wholeheartedly or vigorously. 3 To take possession of or claim (an idea, person, event, etc.) as one's own; to assimilate, absorb, annex, co-opt. vb. 1 To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly. 2 To take up, embrace, enact, or turn eagerly to (a plan, idea, ideology, cause, practice, method, etc.); to grasp, understand, and accept quickly; to adopt wholeheartedly or vigorously. 3 To take possession of or claim (an idea, person, event, etc.) as one's own; to assimilate, absorb, annex, co-opt.

Usage examples of "seize upon".

Dissidents would seize upon Justin's cause as a rallying cry, whether we willed it or no.

Something black and gray, so well camouflaged in the gloom that the eye couldn't quite seize upon the outline of it.

He would seize upon the inadvertent poetry and fashion it into one of his wistful ballads—.

She saw a chance to escape, and she knew she must seize upon it without delay.

Dissidents would seize upon Justin's cause as a rallyingcry, whether we willed it or no.

It was a risk and he knew it, that she might seize upon it in her present mood.

His family seize upon their letters and papers when the mail arrives, read them over and over again for two days or three, talk them over and over again for two or three more till they wear them out, and after that for days together they eat and drink and sleep, and ride out over the same old road, and see the same old tiresome things that even decades of centuries have scarcely changed, and say never a single word!