Word Type

Verb

Noun

The word "catch" can be used as verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

drop

Defined As

hoped for result of fishing

Derived Terms

Catch-22 ass catch becatch body catch bullet catch by-catch bycatch catch Z's catch a Tartar catch a body catch a break catch a buzz catch a case catch a cold catch a crab catch a date catch a dick catch a fade catch a falling knife catch a packet catch a ride catch a square catch a stray catch a tan catch a wave catch air catch and kill catch and kiss catch and release catch as catch can catch bet catch big air catch breath catch cold catch colt catch crop catch dust catch feelings catch fence catch fire catch flies catch hands catch heat catch hell catch hold catch in 4K catch in possession catch in the act catch it catch it in the neck catch lacking catch me catch napping catch no ball catch no balls catch of the day catch on catch on fire catch one's breath catch one's death catch one's drift catch one's eyes catch oneself on catch out catch over catch pit catch plate catch points catch red-handed catch redhanded catch sight of catch some rays catch some z's catch someone at their own game catch someone napping catch someone with their pants down catch someone's drift catch someone's eye catch someone's fancy catch step catch step catch the bus catch the eye catch the light catch the queer catch the sun catch the ten catch the wave catch title catch up catch wind of catch wreck catch you later catch you on the flip side catch-'em-alive-O catch-all catch-all party catch-allism catch-as-catch-can catch-breath catch-dog catch-meadow catch-rope catch-up effect catchability catchable catchball catchbasin catchbreath catchcry catchdrain catchee catcher catchfart catchfly catchful catchlight catchline catchmark catchment catchpenny catchphrase catchpit catchpoints catchpole catchstitch catchwater catchweed catchword catchwork catchy caught behind caught between two stools caught in the cookie jar caught looking caught on the hop caught raiding the cookie jar caught short caught stealing caught with one's fingers in the cookie jar caught with one's pants down caught with the cookie jar cony-catch couldn't catch a cold crowd catch dog that caught the car dog who caught the tire don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear fair catch first catch your hare flycatch forecatch glottal catch hard to catch howcatchem make someone hard to catch miscatch miscatch not be caught dead outcatch overcatch recatch safety catch set a thief to catch a thief shoestring catch the proverbial dog that caught the car throw a sprat to catch a mackerel time catch uncatch wouldn't be caught dead you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar you can't catch old birds with chaff you catch more flies with honey than vinegar you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

Entails

listen

Etymologically Related To

latch laught

Context

agriculture baseball computing cricket heading music noun adjunct phonetics rowing surfing

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

accumulate ache acquire actor amass appeal attach attract board capture catch fire change check clutch collect combust compile comprehend conflagrate constraint contain contract control curb delay delivery detain discover doer draw draw in drawback erupt fastener fastening find find out fixing gaining control game get get a line get on get wind get word go hear hit hoard hold hold in hold up holdfast hurt ignite indefinite quantity learn locomote manner of speaking moderate move object perceive physical object pick up pile up play prehend propagate pull pull in reproduce restraint roll up see seize seizure speech spread suffer surprise take take fire take hold take hold of touch touching travel understand watch witness worker

Type Of (IsA)

adult drawback fastener game indefinite quantity manner of speaking object restraint round touch

Manner Of

attract board change contract control delay erupt get hear hurt perceive play reproduce roll up seize spread surprise understand witness

Related Terms

acquire ambush attract ball bawdy blow boat boyfriend breath capture catch up catcher charm clasp convey cough crick crop deal deceive difficulty discover echo engage entangle entrance entrap exception find fire fragment germinate girlfriend grab grasp grip hesitation hit hold hold back impede infect infection innings ketch listen to marry mechanism music negotiation oar object open opportunity overtake perceive poetry pregnant readiness receive refrain relationship replenish reproduce root round seize seizing serve shore sleep snare snatch spouse spread stick strike surprise take take in travel trip up understand watch wave

Similar Terms

capture catch up with contract get grab hitch make overhear overtake receive see take take in

Synonym Network

apprehension capture chorus fang get grasp haul hitch observation overtake prize seizure snag snatch stop take trip up watch

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.