get hold of   (TTS Sound)

The 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")


• 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")


• seize, clutch, get hold of -- (affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease")