take hold

1. Become established, as in The new vines quickly took hold , or This idea will never take hold with the voters . [c. 1300]

2. Grasp, as in Take hold of this end of the rope . [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

The use of cannabis as an intoxicant began to take hold in America in the early 1900s.

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The long process of programming of the money would mean its effect would not take hold until well into next year.

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I even took it as a possible sign that 20 years after the fact, perhaps the healing process had begun to take hold.

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Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) said a crisis of confidence is beginning to take hold in both areas.

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A few places integrated in the 1950s, but it really took until the early- to mid-1970s for integration to take hold.

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The concerto made a generally dazzling and difficult impression upon me, but did not "take hold" of me particularly.

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Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace with me, shall it make peace with me?

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I'd just admire to take hold this job an' clear the weeds an' rubbidge offen Skyrie.

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If I was a younger man, Mrs. Prentice, I would take hold of your property and get you twenty-five per cent.

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If you take hold of your dress on both sides, in that way, and drag it up so high, you will be set down as a raw country girl.

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