catch

/kætʃ/, /ketʃ/ v [I/T] (past tense and past participle caught /kɔt/) (TAKE HOLD)

Definition

› to take or get hold of a moving object, or to hold and prevent someone from getting away: [I] She tossed him the car keys and yelled, “Catch!” [T] He sneaked into the fairgrounds without paying and hoped nobody would catch him.

(Definition of catch v (TAKE HOLD) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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catch up phrasal verb REACH ANOTHER
catch up phrasal verb TALK
catch v BECOME INFECTED
catch v DISCOVER
catch v SEE
catch v TAKE HOLD
catch v TRAVEL
catch your breath idiom
catch-22 n
catch-up n
catcher n

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