seize
verb (used with object)
to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp.
seizer
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a word derived from
seize.
Example Sentences
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His reputation as a seizer of opportunity was solidified when, after the cataclysmic collapse of in 2008, he arranged for Barclays to acquire the salvageable pieces of that bank for $1.75 billion.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2012
Always an able seizer of opportunities, General Escobar tapped the Bank of Montreal in Mexico for $108,000 before his revolution, sent the money to the U. S. where opportunities are brightest.
From Time Magazine Archive
His name shall be 'Nibiru' the seizer of the middle.
From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
This is generally, but wrongly, read /êkimmu/, and translated "the seizer," from /êkemu/, "to seize."
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
From The Arabian Nights Once upon a time a Falcon stooped from its flight and seized a Partridge; but the latter freed himself from the seizer, and entering his nest, hid himself there.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
