What is "sieze"

Usage examples of "sieze".

As the day wore on we spread out from one another to pursue separate quarry, and this I siezed as my chance.

When he fell and broke his leg, a man and woman siezed hold of his leg and began twisting it, as if to snap it right off.

And what, after all my unwearied Cares and Pains, to rescue the Miserable from the Lions and Bears of Hell, which had siezed them, and after all my Studies to disappoint the Devils in their designs to confound my Neighbourhood, must I be driven to the necessity of an Apologie?

You siezed this bauble prematurely: you see, FitzRobert cannot be legitimately coronated without this Jewel .

He let out a roar of anger and leaped for her, siezing her by the shoulders and shaking her while her girlfriends fled screaming.