• v.
    ⦿take into your hands deliberately
    lexical concept
  • A crazy idea took hold of him
  • Birds of prey often seize small mammals
  • She clutched her purse
  • The mother seized her child by the arm
  • The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:clutch
  2. enl:prehend
  3. enl:seize
  4. enl:take hold
  5. enl:take hold of
wn:interlingual indexili:i27685
wn:eq synonymdn:gribe§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • prehendtake holdtake hold of
  • clutchprehendseizetake holdtake hold of