Crossword-Solution: SEIZER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Seizer | n. | One who, or that which, seizes. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SEIZER | anagram | RESIZE |
We have 10 clues for the answer “SEIZER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Confiscator | 1 answer |
| Fletcher Christian, re the "Bounty" | 1 answer |
| Homophone for a Roman | 1 answer |
| One nabbing something | 1 answer |
| Repo man, e.g. | 1 answer |
| rapist | 6 answers |
| Kidnapper | 7 answers |
| Usurper | 9 answers |
| ABDUCTOR | 12 answers |
| captor | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SEIZER (5)
These spirits were of various kinds, and bore names which do not always reveal their real character--such as the /edimmu/, /utukku/, /šêdu/, /ašakku/ (spirit of fevers), /namtaru/ (spirit of fate), /âlû/ (regarded as the spirit of the south wind), /gallu/, /rabisu/, /labartu/, /labasu/, /ahhazu/ (the seizer), /lilu/ and /lilithu/ (male and female spirits of the mist), with their attendants.
These dogs were called /Ukkumu/, /Akkulu/, /Ikšsuda/, and /Iltebu/, "Seizer," "Eater," "Grasper," and "Holder." Images of these beings were probably kept in the temple of Ê-sagila at Babylon.
This is generally, but wrongly, read /êkimmu/, and translated "the seizer," from /êkemu/, "to seize." In reality, however, it was an ordinary spirit, and the word is used for the wraiths of the departed.
The /âhhazu/, in Sumerian /dimme-kur/, was apparently so called as "the seizer," that being the meaning indicated by the root.
Now came the tug of war--only one seizer! The spring had been so great, and the position of the buck was so secure, that the dog had missed the ear, and only held by the cheek.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1977–2019).