get hold of Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb get into one's hands, take physically
take.
- Take a cookie!
- Can you take this bag, please
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verb be in or establish communication with
get through; contact; reach.
- Our advertisements reach millions
- He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
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verb affect
clutch; seize.
- Fear seized the prisoners
- The patient was seized with unbearable pains
- He was seized with a dreadful disease
