catch

verb [T] (BECOME INFECTED)

/kætʃ, ketʃ/ (past tense and past participle caught /kɔt/)

Definition

› to get an illness: I caught a cold.

(Definition of catch verb (BECOME INFECTED) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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