Difference between Seize and Appropriate

What is the difference between Seize and Appropriate?

Seize as a verb is to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture while Appropriate as a verb is to make suitable; to suit. -- william paley.

Seize

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture to take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance) to take possession of (by force, law etc.) to have a sudden and powerful effect upon to bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line to fasten, fix to lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ or ) to have a seizure to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up

Example sentence: Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

Appropriate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley.To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, "let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others;—with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.

Example sentence: I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

We hope you now know whether to use Seize or Appropriate in your sentence.

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