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. Spanish Proverb:

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

2. Antone Melton-Meaux:

   We don't need another celebrity. We don't need dividers. We need people that are going to work and unite us to challenge and take hold of these problems that we face as a community.

3. William Rhind:

   At the moment, the positive inflationary pressures caused by trade tariffs are being beaten back by dollar strength, as the tariffs take hold and the market adjusts to the effects, we expect inflationary pressures to increase, which will benefit holders of gold and commodities.

4. Joe Biden:

   Now he's suggesting he wants to get the country back opened by Easter, it would be a catastrophic thing to do for our people and for our economy if we sent people back to work just as we were beginning to see the impact of social distancing take hold only to unleash a second spike in infections.

5. 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.