take hold of

1. 1.

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

   “Catch the ball!”

   “Grab the elevator door!”

   Synonymscatchgrab

   Broaderseize

   Narrowerharpoonfishhooknetintercept

Questions about take hold of

What does take hold of mean?

take hold of means "take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of".

What is another word for take hold of?

Close synonyms include catch, grab. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take hold of a common word?

take hold of is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.