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Take hold

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To grasp, seize.

    "The astonishing sight of the Cristo do Corcovado took hold of our attention."

  2. 2
    take into your hands deliberately wordnet
  3. 3
    To take root, become established. intransitive

    "Then the highly virulent mental germs skillfully inoculated took a hold in the subconscious mind of European humanity; the disease developed rapidly, spread like wild fire, and raged unabated throughout the width and length of the central empires."

  4. 4
    assume control wordnet

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