Usually means: Sudden, uncontrolled electrical brain disturbance.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. seizure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. seizure, seizure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. seizure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. seizure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. seizure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Seizure, seizure: Wordnik
  7. seizure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. seizure: Wiktionary
  9. seizure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. seizure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. seizure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. seizure: Dictionary.com
  13. seizure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. seizure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Seizure (Cook novel), Seizure (Reichs novel), Seizure (album), Seizure (disambiguation), Seizure (film), Seizure (law), Seizure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Seizure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. seizure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. seizure: Rhymezone
  19. Seizure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. seizure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. seizure: FreeDictionary.org
  22. seizure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. seizure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. seizure: Merriam-Webster

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. seizure: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. seizure: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. seizure: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Seizure (law), Seizure (medicine), seizure: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Seizure (law), Seizure (medicine), seizure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. seizure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Seizure: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. Seizure: MedFriendly Glossary
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  10. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  11. seizure: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  12. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  13. seizure: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  14. Seizure (medicine), seizure: Medical dictionary
  15. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  17. Seizure: Brain Injury
  18. Seizure: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Seizure, seizure, the seizure: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. seizure: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
noun:  A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
noun:  A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
noun:  That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.
noun:  (obsolete) Retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.
verb:  To undergo an epileptic seizure.

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