get hold of

Verb
  1. Get into one's hands, take physically (synset 201216829)
    "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please"
    subtypes:
    same as: take
  2. Be in or establish communication with (synset 200745330)
    "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
    is a type of: communicate, intercommunicate - transmit thoughts or feelings
    subtypes:
    • ping - send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
    • ping - contact, usually in order to remind of something
    • raise - establish radio communications with
    same as: contact, get through, reach
  3. Affect (synset 200739661)
    "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
    is a type of: overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
    same as: clutch, seize

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