Verb: get hold of
- Get into one's hands, grasp physically
"get hold of a cookie!";
- take
- Be in or establish communication with
"Our advertisements get hold of millions";
- reach, get through, contact
- Affect
"Fear got hold of the prisoners";
- seize, clutch, take hold of, take hold
Derived forms: getting hold of, gets hold of, got hold of
See also: carry off, discerp, gather in, tackle, take in, take up
Type of: acquire, communicate, engulf, get, ingulf [archaic], intercommunicate, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over