mindmap root((抓住)) hold is widely applicable and may imply mere possession or control, or possession or control firmly maintained: tried to keep a ~ on his temper. grip regularly suggests a firm or tenacious hold: had a firm ~ on the reins of power. grasp differs from grip chiefly in suggesting a power to reach out and get possession or control of something: success was almost within his ~. clutch implies a seizing and holding with or as if with the avidity or rapacity of a bird of prey: stayed out of the executioner's ~es.