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HOOK ON
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
take up new ideas
Synonyms:
fasten on; hook on; latch on; seize on; take up
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "hook on" is one way to...):
adopt; embrace; espouse; sweep up (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP