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
One Mkungu is always over the palace, in command of the Wanagalali, or guards which are changed monthly; another is ever in attendance as seizer of refractory persons.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
A veteran seizer is generally seamed with innumerable scars.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
The /âhhazu/, in Sumerian /dimme-kur/, was apparently so called as "the seizer," that being the meaning indicated by the root.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
