take hold

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

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

Example Sentences

US envoy Steve Witkoff said Israeli hostages held in Gaza were coming home, in a message directed at the captives at a rally Saturday, as a ceasefire took hold in the Palestinian territory.

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"They prepared you to kill and to sacrifice yourself," he says, adding that before long, this fetishisation of death began to take hold on him.

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By the time my husband and I learned of their admirable practice, a worse one had taken hold for us.

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You have three unhealthy patterns that have taken hold, like ivy that has grown into the foundations of your home: repeated conflict, avoidance of conflict, and your inability to agree on financial management.

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By that autumn, a mood had begun to take hold about human rights that, 14 years later, has culminated in the Conservatives pledging to leave the ECHR.

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