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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... he was, was hard pressed to catch up with Stubbs, who had gained a slight lead and was covering the ground with rapid strides. But at last the lad overtook him and laid a hand ...

— The Boy Allies At Verdun • Clair W. Hayes

... we'll see about that?" said they; and they threw down their picks and ran after him, but couldn't catch up with him, and soon they had to sit down by ...

— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)

... to consider such statements as only so many beautiful words—elusive, ethereal, and descriptive of something that is always in the future; but if it be always in the future it will never be ours; we cannot catch up with it; and thus it becomes a mockery. These prophetic utterances are ...

— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad

... in the darkness and we could not catch up with them. They must be way up the river by ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... and a gracious setting of Heine's flower-song, are all noteworthy lyrics. He has set some of Tolstoi's words to music, the sinister love of "Doubt Not, O Friend," and the hurry and glow of "The First Spring Days," making unusually powerful songs. In the "Look Off, Dear Love," he did not catch up with Lanier's great lyric, but he handled his material most effectively in Aldrich' "Song from the Persian," with its Oriental wail followed by a martial joy. The high verve that marks his work lifts his "Sing, O Heavens," out of ...

— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes

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