Definitions
the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
Word origin
From seize + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“The pirates buried their seizings and marked the map with an X.”
“Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!” Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.”
“It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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