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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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"Catch up with" Quotes from Famous Books

... darkness. "I can't see her face. If we cross over we can catch up with them by the time they reach the corner where we could see her in the light." The grip of my hand on her arm made her ...

— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher

... earliest books; and very careless and very rapturous they wore. But I am not quite sure that in real life even Ben, when as second whip to the East Cara hounds she lost her horse, would have found an aeroplane useful to catch up with. In case it should be objected that anything so funny as the tea at Miss Talty's never could happen, even in the Caher Valley district, I want to put it on record here and now that it could ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 23, 1919 • Various

... hold your horses there," said Arcot. "If you take that off now, we sure will need the Ancient Mariner to catch up with it. It will produce an acceleration that no man could ever stand—something on the order of five thousand gravities, if the tubes could stand it. And since that one is equipped with the invisibility apparatus, you'd be out one good invisibility suit. ...

— Islands of Space • John W Campbell

... We're getting left behind." Agony strained forward on the suitcase she was helping Hinpoha to carry down the hill and endeavored to catch up with the crowd, a proceeding which she soon acknowledged to be impossible, for Hinpoha, rendered breathless by the hasty scramble from the train, lagged farther behind ...

— The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin • Hildegard G. Frey

... the wind blew the tar paper off. There was not a tree, not a weather-break of any kind for protection. Sometimes the wind, coming in a clean sweep, would riddle the tar paper and take it in great sheets across the prairie so fast no one could catch up with it. The covering on our shack had seen its best days and went ripping off at the least provocation. With plenty of fuel one could get along fairly well unless the tar paper was torn off in strips, leaving the cracks and knotholes open. Then we had to stop up the holes with anything ...

— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl

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