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Catch up

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of catch-up. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To pick up suddenly. transitive

    "Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl, who caught up his hat and ran through the melon patch to join them."

  2. 2
    learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened wordnet
  3. 3
    To entangle (something). transitive

    "The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights."

  4. 4
    reach the point where one should be after a delay wordnet
  5. 5
    To involve in (something). broadly, transitive

    "That's why she got caught up in addiction."

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  1. 6
    To be brought up to date with news. intransitive

    "I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up."

  2. 7
    To bring (someone) up to date with the news. transitive

    "After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes."

  3. 8
    To reach something that had been ahead. ambitransitive

    "Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won."

  4. 9
    To compensate for or make up a deficiency. intransitive

    "After a slow start, they've been catching up lately."

  5. 10
    To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it). intransitive

    "His years of drinking were catching up with him."

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