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get hold of
Found in thesaurus: intercommunicate, communicate, sweep over, overwhelm, overcome, whelm, overtake, overpower
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get hold of
find, manage to catch
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get hold of
Verb
1. get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please"
(synonym) take
(hyponym) seize, prehend, clutch
2. be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
(synonym) reach, get through, contact
(hypernym) communicate, intercommunicate
(hyponym) ping
3. affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unberable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
(synonym) seize, clutch
(hypernym) overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
| Babylon English-Czech | Download this dictionary |
get hold of
sehnat co, chytit
| ENGLISH IDIOMS 2.EDITION | Download this dictionary |
get hold of (someone)
find a person so you can speak with him or her I tried to get hold of him last week but he was out of town.
get hold of (something)
get possession of When you get hold of a dictionary could you please let me see it for a few minutes.
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get hold of
Synonyms and related words:
abduct, absorb, annex, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, assimilate, be informed, be with one, become acquainted with, broaden the mind, carry off, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive, cram the mind, determine, dig, digest, discover, fathom, find, find out, find out about, follow, gain knowledge, get, get at, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, glom on to, grab, grasp, have, have it taped, ken, kidnap, know, lay hands on, learn, learn about, load the mind, master, pick up information, read, realize, savvy, seize, seize the meaning, sense, shanghai, take, take in, take over, take possession, take up, throttle, understand
abduct, absorb, annex, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, assimilate, be informed, be with one, become acquainted with, broaden the mind, carry off, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive, cram the mind, determine, dig, digest, discover, fathom, find, find out, find out about, follow, gain knowledge, get, get at, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, glom on to, grab, grasp, have, have it taped, ken, kidnap, know, lay hands on, learn, learn about, load the mind, master, pick up information, read, realize, savvy, seize, seize the meaning, sense, shanghai, take, take in, take over, take possession, take up, throttle, understand
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
