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Synset

take or capture by force
<verb.contact>   freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 5

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sample sentences

"The terrorists seized the politicians"
"The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
seizure seizer
semantic pointers
hypernym
take, get hold of
hyponym
raven wrest kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch hijack, commandeer, highjack, pirate