Dictionary entry

Seizure

Pronunciation: /ˈsiːʒə/

Pronunciation

/ˈsiːʒə/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ဖမ်းခြင်း။ဖမ်းဆီးခြင်း။

Definition

seize /si:z/ v ၁။ ဖမ္းကိုင္သည္။ ဖမ္းဆြဲ သည္။ She seized me by the wrist. ❍ He seized my bag and ran off with it. သူ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္အိတ္ကိုဆြဲလုၿပီး ထြက္ေျပးသြားသည္။ ၂။ (က) ဖမ္းဆီး သည္။ သိမ္းသည္။ seize the airport in a surprise attack ❍ The army has seized power. ❍ The men were seized (ie arrested) as they left the building. (ခ) (ရဲစသည္က) သိမ္းသည္။ ဖမ္းဆီးသည္။ 20 kilos of heroin were seized yesterday at Heathrow. ❍ All the company's assets were seized. ၃။ (အခြင့္ေကာင္းကို) လက္မလႊတ္တမ္း အသံုး ခ်သည္။ seize the chance to make some money ❍ seize a three-stroke lead ❍ Seize any opening you can. ၄။ (esp passive) (ျပင္းျပေသာဆႏၵ) ႐ုတ္တရက္ေပၚသည္၊ ေပါက္ သည္။ Panic seized us. ❍ We were seized by a sudden impulse to run. ❏ seize on/upon sth [ PHRV ] မလႊတ္တမ္း အသံုးခ်သည္။ (ျပန္)ကိုင္သည္။ She seized on my suggestion and began work immediately. ❍ The critics seized on my mistake. ❏ seize up [ PHRV ] (စက္)တံု႔ခနဲ ရပ္သြားသည္။ Your engine will seize up if you don't put some more oil in. ❍ ( fig ) My joints seem to seize up in the cold weather. ေအးတဲ့ရာသီမွာ ငါ့အဆစ္အမ်က္ေတြ ဆိုင္းသြားသလိုပဲ။ ❏ seizure /'si:ʒǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [U, C] ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္း။ သိမ္းျခင္း။ the seizure of power by the army ❍ the seizure of contraband by Customs officers ❍ Police reports claim that substantial seizures of cocaine have been made. ၂။ [C] ေလသင္တုန္းျဖတ္ျခင္း။ have a seizure ❍ epileptic seizures.

Examples

  1. ‘Listen
  2. ’ he said
  3. seizing my wrist.
  4. [seize someone by something] : Before he could run away
  5. she seized him by the collar.
  6. Hearing a noise
  7. he seized his gun from the drawer.
  8. Customs officials have seized 100 kilos of cocaine.
  9. Action was taken to seize criminal assets valued at $200 million.
  10. Eastern towns were seized by the rebels two years ago.
  11. The nation’s generals seized power in a coup.
  12. Robbers tied up security guards and seized the money.
  13. [seize control] : Their opponents had seized control of the army.
  14. [seize the initiative] : You must seize the initiative in discussions about salary.
  15. A wave of panic seized me.
  16. She was seized by agonizing cramps.
  17. The prime minister was very seized by the need to build on everything he was seeing in that stadium.