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unseized

unseized adjective: not seized.

Adjective

unseized (not comparable)

  1. Not seized.
    • The other member, by whose felt but unseized identity he had been haunted, was the unconsciously insolent form of guaranteed happiness he had just been engaged with.1910, Henry James, The Finer Grain
    • The French did both, and took all of this part of the world they could find unseized by Europe, and tamable, at not too great a shedding of French blood.1921, Frederick O'Brien, Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

Origin of unseized

From un- + seized.

Questions about unseized

What does unseized mean?
Unseized means not seized.
What part of speech is unseized?
Unseized is an adjective.

Words near unseized in the dictionary

  1. unsegregable
  2. unsegregated
  3. unseizable
  4. unseizableness
  5. unseize
  6. unseized
  7. unseizes
  8. unseizing
  9. unseldom
  10. unselect
  11. unselectability

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