What is the meaning of get hold of?

verb

  • Get into one's hands, take physically.
    • usage: "Take a cookie"; "Can you take this bag, please"
  • Be in or establish communication with.
    • usage: "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
  • Affect.
    • usage: "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
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