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(n)
(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
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(v)
(transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
(transitive, colloquial) To buy or acquire quickly, usually because the item is a bargain or in short supply or something one has been searching for.
A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
(adj)
Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
To understand.
(transitive or intransitive) To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(transitive) To grip or grasp tightly.
Alternative form of hand-hold. [(transitive) To hold in the hand.]
(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To pursue.
Primarily physical senses.
(transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
(informal, transitive) To grab or snatch something.
(transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
(heading, physical) To strike.
To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
Leading away; a carrying away.
(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
(ambitransitive) To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
(intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
(transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
(crime) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.
(transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
(transitive) To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.
An act or instance of appropriating.
(ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To create.
(intransitive) To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
(transitive) To gather together; amass.
(transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
(transitive) To regain or get back something.
(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
The act by which something is taken.
(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
(transitive) To take a photograph of.
(obsolete, transitive) To urge, press (someone); to insist on, demand (something).
(transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.
(transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
(Canada, US) A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.
(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
(ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
(transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
(transitive, obsolete) To dig.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
(soccer, ice hockey) To shoot (the ball or puck) directly from a teammate's pass.
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
The act of ingesting food.
A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
(transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
(transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
A surname.
(ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
(cricket) Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.
(transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
(voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
(intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
A female given name from Scottish Gaelic of mostly Scottish usage.
A male given name from Spanish Diego.
(adv)
Outside, outwardly; outwards.
(nautical) A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed.
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
(transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
(transitive) To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
(transitive, intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
Clothes that encircle the neck.
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
(transitive) To pull or twist violently.
(intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
(clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
To grasp, or attempt to grasp, something or somebody, using one's hand, usually in a rough or rude manner.
(obsolete) A method of fishing using a line with several hooks fastened to it along with a lead weight so that the hooks sit on the bottom.