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/kætʃ əp wɪð/ Listen

verb

Catch v. i. (past & past part. caught; pres. part. catching; catched is rarely used)

To attain possession. (Obs.) "Have is have, however men do catch."

To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.

To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.

To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate. "Does the sedition catch from man to man?"

To catch at, to attempt to seize; to be eager to get or use. "(To) catch at all opportunities of subverting the state."

To catch up with, to come up with; to overtake.

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Etymology of 'Catch up with'

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"Catch up with" Quotes from Famous Books

... doesn't much matter," Nevill said to Stephen. "Even an Arab must have some sleep. We'll have ours now, and catch up with Maieddine while he's taking his. Don't worry. Suppose the worst—that he isn't really going to Oued Tolga. We shall get on his track, with an Arab guide to pilot us. There are several stopping places where ...

— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... Don't wait for me. I delayed so long getting my business done that it's time for the angelus. Don't bother about me. Go on eating. I shall catch up with you when ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... wouldn't, not with me running things," said Hanson. "I've been trading and hunting here for ten years and I know as much about the country as he does. If you want to take the girl along I'll help you, and I'll guarantee that there won't nobody catch up with us before we reach the coast. I'll tell you what, you write her a note and I'll get it to her by my head man. Ask her to meet you to say goodbye—she won't refuse that. In the meantime we can be movin' camp a little further north all the time and you can make arrangements ...

— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... from. Is it the pale man back there by the ditch? No, now she knows, she flees the living, not the dead, the living, who will soon be there, and who will look for her. What will they think? Will they follow her? But they cannot catch up with her now, she is so far away, she is nearing the bridge, there is danger. No one can know who she was, no one can possibly imagine who the woman was who drove down through the country road with the dead man. The driver does not know her; he would not recognize her if he should ...

— The Dead Are Silent - 1907 • Arthur Schnitzler

... join them this week in New York but I've arranged to catch up with them in China—as soon as it's possible for ...

— The First Man • Eugene O'Neill

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