Usually means: Gain control or become established.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. take hold: Merriam-Webster
  2. take hold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take hold: Vocabulary.com
  4. take hold: Wiktionary
  5. take hold: Dictionary.com
  6. take hold: Rhymezone
  7. take hold: FreeDictionary.org
  8. take hold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. take hold: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take hold: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take hold: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take hold: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take hold)

▸ verb:  (followed by of) To grasp, seize.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To take root, become established.

Similar:
hold, take control, take charge, take, lay hold of, grip, get hold of, seize, holde, take possession, more...

Opposite:
release, let go, drop

Phrases:
take hold of, to take hold of, take a hold, symptoms to take hold, germs take hold, more...

Adjectives:
hend, hold, vice, gripple, handfast, ansated, grippy, tag, gripping, manal, best

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Similar:
hold, take control, take charge, take, lay hold of, grip, get hold of, seize, holde, take possession, more...

Opposite:
release, let go, drop

Phrases:
take hold of, to take hold of, take a hold, symptoms to take hold, germs take hold, take hold of oneself, deliver take assert hold, deliver impart take assert hold, more...

Adjectives:
hend, hold, vice, gripple, handfast, ansated, grippy, tag, gripping, manal, best



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