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

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

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

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