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vb. (en-third-person singulartake hold)
Usage examples of "takes hold".
As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that she had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself.
She drops the towel and takes hold of his shoulders and puts her head close to his while he coughs and tries to speak.
At once a certain ordering principle takes hold of the single particles.
Their voices flow meaninglessly around him as the familiar fear takes hold.
With both hands she takes hold of a brown apothecary jar half full of Cebion tablets.
A sudden anguish takes hold, and everyone turns to stare at the person who they always seek out whenever they feel less than wonderful.
Paris hadn't been good to him, any more than it had to me, or to anybody, for that matter, but when you've suffered and endured things here it's then that Paris takes hold of you, grabs you by the balls, you might say, like some lovesick bitch who'd rather die than let you get out of her hands.