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Verb: take hold of
  1. Take into your hands deliberately
    "A crazy idea took hold of him";
    - seize, prehend [archaic], clutch, take hold
     
  2. Affect
    "Fear took hold of the prisoners";
    - seize, clutch, get hold of, take hold

Derived forms: takes hold of, took hold of, taken hold of, taking hold of

Type of: engulf, get hold of, ingulf [archaic], overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, take