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Seize
- verb - affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
- capture the attention or imagination of; "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination"
- hook by a pull on the line; "strike a fish"
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
- take hold of; grab; "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"
- take or capture by force; "The terrorists seized the politicians"; "The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages"
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitant
Shiah
- noun - one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran
Shide
- - A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.
Shied
- verb - start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
Shier
- adjective - lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
- short; "eleven is one shy of a dozen"
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers"
Shies
- noun - a quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
Shift
- noun - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- a qualitative change
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"
- change in quality; "His tone shifted"
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"
- change place or direction; "Shift one's position"
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
- make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched"
- move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
- mov
Shill
- noun - a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
- act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"