seized
SEEZD/siːzd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of seize.
Federal agents seized millions in illegal assets during the raid.
The fortress was seized by enemy troops just before dawn.
Note
One spelling does double duty here: the regular -ed ending gives both the past (troops seized the fortress) and the participle that follows have and be (the assets have been seized). In the passive it can carry any sense of the verb, from property taken by force or law to a person overtaken by sudden fear. In land law it can also stand in for seised, meaning vested with ownership of an estate.
seized is a form of seize
seize, verb: To take possession of something by force, legal authority, or similar means. Full entry
- Spelling
- seize → seized: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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