: to stop working because the moving parts can no longer move The engine/brakes suddenly seized up. —sometimes used figuratively Her brain seized up when she tried to answer the question.

What is seizing In medical terms?

Medical Definition of seizure

1 : a sudden attack (as of disease) especially : the physical manifestations (as convulsions, sensory disturbances, or loss of consciousness) resulting from abnormal electrical discharges in the brain (as in epilepsy) 2 : an abnormal electrical discharge in the brain. seizure.

What does it mean when someone is seized?

b : to take prisoner : arrest. 4a : to take hold of : clutch. b : to possess oneself of : grasp. c : to understand fully and distinctly : apprehend. 5a : to attack or overwhelm physically : afflict seized with chest pains.