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TAKE HOLD OF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take hold of mean? 

TAKE HOLD OF (verb)
  The verb TAKE HOLD OF has 1 sense:

1. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion ofplay

  Familiarity information: TAKE HOLD OF used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TAKE HOLD OF (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

catch; grab; take hold of

Context example:

Grab the elevator door!

Hypernyms (to "take hold of" is one way to...):

clutch; prehend; seize (take hold of; grab)

Verb group:

catch (be the catcher)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take hold of"):

harpoon (spear with a harpoon)

fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)

hook (catch with a hook)

net; nett (catch with a net)

intercept; stop (seize on its way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something


 Context examples 


If I dared, I'd touch you, to see if you are substance or shadow, you elf!—but I'd as soon offer to take hold of a blue ignis fatuus light in a marsh.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The group next determined where 2 SSRIs, citalopram (CeleXA) and paroxetine (Paxil), take hold of the transporter.

(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)

You shall soon learn what shuddering is, thought he, and secretly went there before him; and when the boy was at the top of the tower and turned round, and was just going to take hold of the bell rope, he saw a white figure standing on the stairs opposite the sounding hole.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When the dry cough take hold of them hard, they hold their hands against their stomach and double up in the snow, and cough, and cough, and cough. They cannot walk, they cannot talk.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)



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