Seize vs. Grab — What's the Difference?

Take hold of suddenly and forcibly

To take or grasp suddenly

Take (an opportunity) eagerly and decisively

To capture or restrain; arrest.

(of a feeling or pain) affect (someone) suddenly or acutely

To obtain or appropriate unscrupulously or forcibly

Strongly appeal to or attract (the imagination or attention)

To take hurriedly

(of a machine with moving parts) become jammed

(Slang) To capture the attention of

Be in legal possession of

To make a grasping or snatching motion

Fasten or attach (someone or something) to something by binding with turns of rope

A sudden attempt to grasp or hold something

To grasp suddenly and forcibly; take or grab

A sudden, often unscrupulous taking control or ownership of something

To take by force; capture or conquer

A mechanical device for gripping an object.

To take quick and forcible possession of; confiscate

A usually two-masted, sharp-prowed coastal vessel of the Indian Ocean.

To focus the attention or intellect on

Relating or being an object or device that is grabbed or gripped for support or balance

To make use of (an opportunity, for example).

(transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.

To have a sudden overwhelming effect on

(intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).

To overwhelm physically

To restrain someone; to arrest.

Also seise (sēz) Law To cause (someone) to be in possession of something.

(transitive) To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.

(Nautical) To bind (a rope) to another, or to a spar, with turns of small line.

(informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.

To lay sudden or forcible hold of something.

(informal) To consume something quickly.

To cohere or fuse with another part as a result of high pressure or temperature and restrict or prevent further motion or flow.

To take the opportunity of.

To come to a halt

(countable) A sudden snatch at something.

To exhibit signs of seizure activity, often with convulsions.

(countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.

(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.

(countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.

(transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).

A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

(transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).

A sound bite.

(transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.

(obsolete) That which is seized.

To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.

(uncountable) A simple card game.

To fasten, fix.

A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.

(intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

(intransitive) To have a seizure.

A sudden grasp or seizure.

(intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.

An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; - specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.

(law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).

A mechanical device for gripping an object

Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.

The act of catching an object with the hands;

To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

Take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of;

To take possession of by force.

Get hold of or seize quickly and easily;

To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.

Make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand;

To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.

Obtain illegally or unscrupulously;

To fasten; to fix.

Take or grasp suddenly;

To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.

Capture the attention or imagination of;

To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

Take hold of; grab;

Take or capture by force;

Take possession of by force, as after an invasion;

Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority;

Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession;

Hook by a pull on the line;

Affect;

Capture the attention or imagination of;