States and conditions

Synonyms for seizure

The synonym for seizure recorded in this bank is raptus, in the sense "a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for seizure

raptusnoun, in the sense "a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day seizure is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 5, SummitStates and conditions

a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease

He suffered an epileptic seizure.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

raptus

Same sentence, swapped: He suffered an epileptic raptus.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for seizure in the sentence quoted.

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Where seizure turns up in the game

seizure is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where seizure is the trap

thievingnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is stealing, in the sense "the act of taking something from someone unlawfully", so seizure is there to be ruled out.

Play seizure

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so seizure reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. seizure carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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