verb
Meaning 1
To obtain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
get hold of
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verb
Meaning 2
To pick up or grab.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To contact (a person).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Get hold of John and tell him the meeting's been canceled.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To control or stabilize (oneself).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Get hold of yourself!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
affect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Fear seized the prisoners
- The patient was seized with unbearable pains
- He was seized with a dreadful disease
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: seize, clutch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
verb
Meaning 6
be in or establish communication with
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Our advertisements reach millions
- He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reach, get through, contact
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: communicate, intercommunicate
Narrower terms: ping, raise
verb
Meaning 7
get into one's hands, take physically
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Take a cookie!
- Can you take this bag, please
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: take
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: seize, prehend, clutch
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: saada käsiinsä — to obtain
- Polish: uzyskiwać — to obtain
- Polish: uzyskać — to obtain
- Polish: otrzymywać — to obtain
- Polish: otrzymać — to obtain
- Finnish: ottaa — to pick up or grab
- Finnish: ottaa käteensä — to pick up or grab
- Polish: łapać — to pick up or grab
- Polish: złapać — to pick up or grab
- Polish: chwytać — to pick up or grab
- Polish: chwycić — to pick up or grab
- Dutch: bereiken — to contact
- Finnish: ottaa yhteyttä — to contact
- Finnish: saada kiinni — to contact
- German: erreichen — to contact
- Hungarian: megfog — to contact
- Icelandic: ná i — to contact
- Irish: tar ar — to contact
- Polish: łapać — to contact
- Polish: złapać — to contact
- Polish: dodzwonić się — to contact
- Swedish: få tag på — to contact
- Dutch: zich bedwingen — to control or stabilize oneself
- Finnish: ryhdistäytyä — to control or stabilize oneself
- Finnish: koota itsensä — to control or stabilize oneself
- German: sich zusammenreißen — to control or stabilize oneself
- Hungarian: összeszedi magát — to control or stabilize oneself
- Icelandic: stramma sig av — to control or stabilize oneself
- Irish: guaim a chur ort féin — to control or stabilize oneself
- Latin: me recolligo — to control or stabilize oneself
- Polish: brać się w garść — to control or stabilize oneself
- Polish: wziąć się w garść — to control or stabilize oneself
- Swedish: ta sig samman — to control or stabilize oneself