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Verb get hold of has 3 senses
- take, get hold of - get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please"
Sample sentence:
The children get hold of the ball
- reach, get through, get hold of, contact - be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
--2 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- seize, clutch, get hold of - affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unberable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
--3 is one way to overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
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