Synonyms for take hold
take hold

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1. take holdverb

   Synonyms:
   lay hold

2. take holdverb

   to grasp, seize

   Synonyms:
   lay hold

3. take holdverb

   to take root, become established

   Synonyms:
   lay hold

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1. take hold, take charge, take controlverb

   assume control

   Synonyms:
   take charge, take control, hold

2. hold, take holdverb

   have or hold in one's hands or grip

   "Hold this bowl for a moment, please"; "A crazy idea took hold of him"

   Synonyms:
   accommodate, book, retain, moderate, view as, support, apply, hold back, harbour, bind, deem, hold up, arrest, hold, take, have, concord, take control, keep, check, make, take for, go for, throw, defy, control, harbor, reserve, obligate, carry, give, adjudge, entertain, nurse, oblige, curb, defend, confine, have got, restrain, take charge, withstand, agree, hold in, halt, contain, concur, maintain, guard, keep back, sustain, prevail, admit, obtain, declare, bear

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1. Tennessee Williams:

   Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

2. Dr. A. B. Meldrum:

   Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

3. Chet Thompson:

   If these tariffs take hold, particularly if they're able to get up to 25%, that could really impact the overall competitiveness of the U.S. refining industry.

4. Spanish Proverb:

   Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

5. Republican Senator Bob Corker:

   To me it appears that things are gradually moving along. We have air flights that are now going in, and it seems to me that this is going to be a year where those things take hold, obviously there's still tremendous human rights abuses that are taking place in Cuba.