GET HOLD Synonyms

• come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar

• win something through one's efforts

• gain knowledge or skills

• gain through experience

• to gain with effort

• reach a point in time, or a certain state or level

• find unexpectedly

• reach a destination, either real or abstract

• the act of grasping

• a tense critical situation

• a number of birds hatched at the same time

• a collection of things or persons to be handled together

• a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand

• a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism

• a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism

• take hold of; grab

• hold firmly, usually with one's hands

• affect

• a quantity that is added

• the advantageous quality of being beneficial

• the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input

• the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating

• obtain

• win something through one's efforts

• derive a benefit from

• reach a destination, either real or abstract

• obtain advantages, such as points, etc.

• rise in rate or price

• increase or develop

• earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

• increase (one's body weight)

• a mechanical device for gripping an object

• the act of catching an object with the hands

• take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of

• get hold of or seize quickly and easily

• make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand

• obtain illegally or unscrupulously

• take or grasp suddenly

• capture the attention or imagination of

• come into possession of

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• be valid, applicable, or true

• get by special effort

• arrange for sexual partners for others

• free from fear or doubt; easy in mind

• free from danger or risk

• not likely to fail or give way

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• financially safe

• get by special effort

• cause to be firmly attached

• assure payment of

• make certain of

• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

• furnish with battens

• a productive insight

• the act of discovering something

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

• perceive or be contemporaneous with

• get something or somebody for a specific purpose

• make a discovery, make a new finding

• obtain through effort or management

• decide on and make a declaration about

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

• get or find back; recover the use of

• succeed in reaching; arrive at

• accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

• bring forth, usually something desirable

• result or issue

• move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

• come to the surface

• originate or come into being

• move upward

• be mentioned

• start running, functioning, or operating

• get something or somebody for a specific purpose

• come up, of celestial bodies

• gather (money or other resources) together over time

• gather or bring together

• form a line

• get something or somebody for a specific purpose

• form a queue, form a line, stand in line

• place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight

• arrange in ranks

• take one's position before a kick-off