Get Hold Of

Definition: Get Hold Of

Get Hold Of

Verb

1. Get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!" "Can you take this bag, please".

2. Be in communication with, establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia".

3. Affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unberable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease".

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Synonyms: Get Hold Of

Acquisition

Get hold of, get between one's finger and thumb, get into one's hand, get at; take possession, come into possession, enter into possession.

Belief

Think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion; n.

Taking

Get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.

Crosswords: Get Hold Of

If I could only get hold of the fellow that's hoisting it. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "get hold of": get hold of oneself. Additional references.

Albanian

kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملك (have, hold, king, monarch, own, ownership, possess, possession, prince, property, reign, rejoice, sovereign), ‏نجز (accomplish, achieve, be executed, compass, complete, do, encompass, execute, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, gain, get on, implement, negotiate, perfect, perform, polish off, pull off, put across, realize), ‏قبض (catch, constrict, constriction, contraction, grasp, pinch, seizure, taking), ‏أمسك (bite, catch, cradle, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, lay hold of, refrain, withhold), ‏أحرز (achieve, acquire, attain, obtain). (various references)

Chinese 

搞 (to do, to get hold of, to go in for, to make, to set up, to take care of). (various references)

Czech

zmocnit se èeho (get a hold of), uchopit (clench, clutch, get, grasp, grip, seize, take, take up), popadnout (grab, grasp, grip, seize, snatch, snatch up, tackle, whip up). (various references)

Finnish

päästä käsiksi johonkin (get at, get to grips with). (various references)

French

saisir, remonter, réaliser (get on), empoigner, détenir. (various references)

German

organisieren (fix, get up, incorporate, Mount, organize, scrape through, scrape up, wangle), kommen zu (come by, come into, get down to, get to, receive), kommen an (touch), herankommen an (approach, be up to, get at, verge on), erwischen (captivate, capture, catch, cop, cope, get, grapple, make, nab, to get hold of), erobern (capture, carry, conquer, move into, take, to conquer, win), erjagen (bag, hunt down), ergattern (scavenge, snatch), ergattere, beschaffen (obtain, procure, provide, supply, to supply), auftreiben (become bloated, bloat, distend, find, hunt up, make rise, raise, rake up, rise, scrape up, scratch together, scratch up, track down, whip up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאחוז (catch, connect, fasten, grasp, grip, hold, port, seize), ל�"שי�' (accomplish, achieve, acquire, angle, attain, catch hold of, come by, comprehend, fetch, gain, grasp, land, obtain, procure, question, reach, secure), לרכוש (acquire, appropriate, catch hold of, collect, come by, obtain, pick up, procure, purchase, secure). (various references)

Hungarian

elér (accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get, get at, got, made, overtake, reach, to attain, to chalk up, to come up with, to get, to make, to realize). (various references)

Italian

pescare (draw out, fish, fish for, root out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

金が手に入る (to get hold of money). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かねがてにはいる (to get hold of money). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay oldhay ofay.(various references)

Portuguese

surpreender (amaze, astonish, astound, catch, come upon, daze, overtake, startle, surprise, surprising, take by surprise), capturar (arrest, capture, carry, catch, collar, grapple, prize, seize), atingir (accomplish, achieve, arrive, attain, catch, culminate, gain, get, get around, hit, import, measure up to, overtake, reach, run, run across, run to, smite, strike, touch), agarrar (capture, catch, clasp, cling, clutch, grab, grabble, grapple, grasp, gripe, hold, lay hands on, seize, twitch). (various references)

Romanian

pune mâna pe (catch hold of, get, gripe, hook, impound, jog, land, nab, pot, seize, seize hold of), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), face rost de (obtain, procure, secure), înşfãca (grab, grasp, gripe, nab, nail, snap, snatch). (various references)

Russian 

схватить (capture, catch, clutch, get, grapple, gripe, nab, nail, nip, seize, snap up, snatch, tackle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kontaktirati (contact, make contact), dobiti (acquire, get, get in, obtain, receive, win). (various references)

Spanish

tomar control sobre (take control), conseguir (accomplish, achieve, acquire, attain, bring off, come by, compass, enlist, gain, get, getting, land, obtain, procure, pull off, purchase, put across, put over, score, succeed, walk in, win), coger (accept, arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clutch, cop, develop, fetch, frig, gather, get, go down, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hit off, hold, hook, hunch, imbibe, land, lay hold of, lift, nab, nail, nobble, pick, pick up, pinch, pluck, seize, take, take on, take out, take up, toss, touch, treat, trip, trip up, yank off), agarrar (catch, catch hold of, clench, clutch, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hold, hold tight, lay hold of, lift, nail, pack, pinch, seize, snatch up, tackle, take, take on, touch). (various references)

Swedish

få tag i (come across, find, latch on to, obtain, track). (various references)

Turkish

yakasına yapışmak (buttonhole, collar, take smb. by the scruff of the neck), yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, entrap, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nobble, overtake, pinch, pull up to, seize, seize on, snap up, snatch, tackle, take, take up, trap), tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), kavramak (absorb, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, bite, catch, catch on, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, come home, compass, comprehend, conceive, cup, dawn on, digest, discern, fathom, get, get a grip, grasp, grip, hold, latch on to, nail, perceive, pick up, realize, see into, seize, sum up, twig, understand), ele geçirmek (capture, conquer, corner, embrace, get, hunt down, invade, lay hold of, pinch, possess oneself of, seize, take, take possession of, win), bağlantı kurmak (corelate, establish a connection with, link, link up, make contact, relate, tap). (various references)

obtentu, obtinebas, obtinebat, obtinebimus, obtinebis, obtinebit, obtinebitis, obtinebunt, obtinendam, obtinent, obtinere, obtinerent, obtineret, obtinet, obtinuerant, obtinuerat, obtinuerimus, obtinueris, obtinuerunt, obtinueruntque, obtinui, obtinuissent, obtinuisset, obtinuit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: footled, theolog, toehold.

-3 letters: fodgel, fooled, footed, footle, golfed, goofed, hoofed, hooted, hotdog, lofted, looted, tholed, toledo, tooled.

-4 letters: defog, delft, dhole, doeth, flood, godet, helot, holed, hotel, lodge, looed, ogled, oohed, thole, toled.

-5 letters: deft, delf, delt, doge, dole, dolt, dote, doth, felt, feod, fled, floe, flog, fold, food, fool, foot, geld, gelt.

+3 letters: floodlighted.