to take hold
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3.8
- phrasal verb
- /teɪk hoʊld/
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- A sudden change in weather can make anxiety take hold in many individuals.
- begin to take hold
- never take hold
- processes take hold
And the question is, where does it take hold?
- And the question is, where does it take hold?
- It becomes a political economy problem, which is how to get it to take hold in the system.
- And again, the Stalin type figure takes hold.
- Anyway, they recorded brain activity before, during and after the drug took hold.
- Stop and hopefully that will help prevent some of that mold because often times the mold will take hold before your seedlings sprout.
- Christian Southern Christian Republicans are the grossest people in the United States of America and it is the breeding grounds where MAGA was able to take hold.
- We'll just kind of keep it with that kind of example, you know, in in that case, the feeling of loneliness and isolation will take hold.
- Thus, Liberty Bonds and their guaranteed profits have now given Americans a taste of investment, and a new fever and trading boom soon takes hold.
- But another way to show the the way this drug has taken hold of the community.
Examples
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But where the new system took hold, only men could earn a living wage.
Fiction book (1992) -
If we let people who are interested only in profits take hold... no one will be safe in time.
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What happens to our business if this message takes hold?
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Anyway, the idea took hold.
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The season had begun to air when COVID really took hold globally.
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It becomes a political economy problem, which is how to get it to take hold in the system.
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There's never been a successful third party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.
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I guess our ceasefire has yet to take hold.
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But we do know that once life got going on Earth, Darwinian evolution took hold very quickly.
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I think they're actually edible, but once they take hold and seed in here, they just spread everywhere.
Synonyms
∞
2.8
Cause someone to die or suffer great harm
862
3.1
Begin to control someone else's job or project
227
3.5
Start to have power and make decisions about something
98
3.5
Start to control a group or situation and lead others
79
3.2
To start guiding a group or activity and make the main decisions
28
4.2
To take control of a country or government
23
4.7
To drive a car or have control of a situation
14
3.6
To begin to exist and become accepted by people
12
4.4
To lead an organization, group, or project
9
6.6
To have power over people or situations
7
3.4
To feel a strong emotion suddenly that controls you
Start managing something after the previous person leaves
To start managing a task or group after someone else managed it
Antonyms
How Dominant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to grasp or seize something' is directly derivable from combining 'take' (to seize) with 'hold' (to support in the hand); the phrase simply expresses taking a hold of something literally. This is a common, compositional verb + verb/particle-like construction found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Take hold comes from the picture of roots or a plant grabbing the soil: when roots take and hold the ground the plant becomes firm and grows. That's why we say something 'takes control' or 'becomes dominant' when it takes hold in a situation.