All lay hands on synonyms

verb lay hands on

• run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
• spirit away — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
• bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
• come by — To come by something means to obtain it or find it.
• pick up — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• buy out — If you buy someone out, you buy their share of something such as a company or piece of property that you previously owned together.
• lay hold of — to seize or grasp
• lay one's hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
• snap up — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
• come across — If you come across something or someone, you find them or meet them by chance.
• come upon — If you come upon someone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
• ferret out — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
• get at — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• hit upon — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• meet with — to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter: I would meet him on the street at unexpected moments.
• pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• pin down — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
• smoke out — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
• track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
• zero in on — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.