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seizure

noun
🔊/ˈsiːʒə(r)/
🔊/ˈsiːʒər/
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  1. [uncountable, countable] seizure (of something) the use of legal authority to take something from somebody; an amount of something that is taken in this way起获；没收；起获的赃物；没收的财产
    • The court ordered the seizure of his assets.法庭下令没收他的财产。🔊🔊
    • the largest ever seizure of cocaine at a British port在英国口岸起获的历来数量最大的一批可卡因
    • The Act confers powers of entry, search and seizure on the police.该法案授予警察入室、搜查和扣押的权力。
    Topics Law and justicec2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • biggest
    • largest
    • drug
    • …
    verb + seizure
    • make
    phrases
    • search and seizure
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  2. [uncountable] seizure of something the act of using force to take control of a country, town, etc.夺取；占领；控制
    • the army’s seizure of power军队对政权的夺取
    • the seizure of Burma by Japan in 19421942 年日军对缅甸的占领
    • The invasion began with the seizure of the country's largest southern city.入侵的第一步是占领该国南部最大的城市。
  3. [countable] (old-fashioned) a sudden attack of an illness, especially one that affects the brain（疾病，尤指脑病的）突然侵袭，发作
    • to have/suffer an epileptic seizure患有/遭受癫痫发作
    Topics Illnessc2