To take control (physically) of something.
To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
To collect and detain (a suspect).
To lift; to grasp and raise.
To clean up; to return to an organized state.
To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
To receive calls; to function correctly.
To record; to notch up.
To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
To collect an object, especially in passing.
To answer a telephone.
To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
To restart or resume.
To receive (a radio signal or the like).
To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
To improve, increase, or speed up.
To reduce the despondency of.
To pay for.
To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
To collect a passenger.
To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly.
To take up, embrace, enact, or turn eagerly to (a plan, idea, ideology, cause, practice, method, etc.); to grasp, understand, and accept quickly; to adopt wholeheartedly or vigorously.
To take possession of or claim (an idea, person, event, etc.) as one's own; to assimilate, absorb, annex, co-opt.