get hold

Questions about get hold

What is another word for get hold?

It depends which get hold you mean. In the sense “get something or somebody for a specific purpose”, the synonyms are line up, come up, find. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of get hold?

WordNet records no antonym for get hold. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for get hold come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of get hold

• Full entry for get holdAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for get holdWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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