1. Get into one's hands, take physically
   - take 
2. Be in or establish communication with
   - reach, get through, contact 
3. Affect
   - seize, clutch

Derived forms: gets hold of, got hold of, getting hold of

Type of: communicate, intercommunicate, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm [archaic]

• lower cannon
• Lower Carboniferous
• Lower Carboniferous period
• lower class
• lower court
• lower criticism
• lower deck
• Lower Egypt
• lower jaw
• lower jawbone
• lower limit
• lower mantle
• lower oneself
• Lower Paleolithic
• Lower Peninsula
• lower rank
• lower respiratory infection
• lower respiratory tract
• lower respiratory tract smear
• Lower Saxony
• lower status
• Lower Tunguska
• lower-case letter
• lower-middle-class
• Lower-Normandy