The difference between Impress and Seize

When used as verbs, impress means to affect (someone) strongly and often favourably, whereas seize means to deliberately take hold of.

Impress is also noun with the meaning: the act of impressing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Impress and Seize

  1. Impress as a verb (transitive):

    To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

    Examples:

    "You impressed me with your command of Urdu."

  2. Impress as a verb (intransitive):

    To make an impression, to be impressive.

    Examples:

    "Henderson impressed in his first game as captain."

  3. Impress as a verb (transitive):

    To produce a vivid impression of (something).

    Examples:

    "That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind."

  4. Impress as a verb (transitive):

    To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

    Examples:

    "We impressed our footprints in the wet cement."

  5. Impress as a verb:

    To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

  6. Impress as a verb (figurative):

    To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

  7. Impress as a verb (transitive):

    To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

    Examples:

    "The press gang used to impress people into the Navy."

  8. Impress as a verb (transitive):

    To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

    Examples:

    "The liner was impressed as a troop carrier."

  1. Impress as a noun:

    The act of impressing.

  2. Impress as a noun:

    An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.

  3. Impress as a noun:

    A stamp or seal used to make an impression.

  4. Impress as a noun:

    An impression on the mind, imagination etc.

  5. Impress as a noun:

    Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek South"

  6. Impress as a noun:

    A heraldic device; an impresa.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Cussans"

  7. Impress as a noun:

    The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

  1. Seize as a verb (transitive):

    To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: clasp grasp grip Thesaurus:grasp"

  2. Seize as a verb (transitive):

    To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).

    Examples:

    "synonyms: jump on"

  3. Seize as a verb (transitive):

    To take possession of (by force, law etc.).

    Examples:

    "synonyms: arrogate commandeer confiscate"

    "to seize smuggled goods"

    "to seize a ship after libeling"

  4. Seize as a verb (transitive):

    To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.

    Examples:

    "a panic seized the crowd"

    "a fever seized him"

  5. Seize as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.

    Examples:

    "to seize two fish-hooks back to back"

    "to seize or stop one rope on to another"

  6. Seize as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To fasten, fix.

  7. Seize as a verb (intransitive):

    To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ or ).

    Examples:

    "to seize on the neck of a horse"

  8. Seize as a verb (intransitive):

    To have a seizure.

  9. Seize as a verb (intransitive):

    To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.

    Examples:

    "Rust caused the engine to seize, never to run again."

  10. Seize as a verb (UK, intransitive):

    To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

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