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Alternative spelling of catch-up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To pick up suddenly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
To entangle (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: chiefly passive voice
Examples
- The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To involve in (something); to embroil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, transitive
Qualifier: chiefly passive voice
Examples
- That's why she got caught up in addiction.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To be brought up to date with news.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To bring (someone) up to date with the news.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes.
- I have to miss the end of the meeting, but you can catch me up later.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To reach something that had been ahead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Examples
- Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.
- I'll go ahead and you can catch up with me later.
- I'll go ahead and you can catch me up later.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To compensate for or make up a deficiency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- After a slow start, they've been catching up lately.
- The sales quarter ends soon and we've got to try to catch up.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- His years of drinking were catching up with him.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: learn, larn, acquire
reach the point where one should be after a delay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I caught up on my homework
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
Narrower terms: come back
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
грабвам
(grabvam)
— to pick up suddenly
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Turkish:
yakalamak
— to pick up suddenly
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Spanish:
enredar
— to entangle
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Finnish:
vaihtaa kuulumisia
— to be brought up to date with news
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French:
prendre des nouvelles
— to be brought up to date with news
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German:
aufholen
— to be brought up to date with news
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Spanish:
enterarse
— to be brought up to date with news
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Spanish:
ponerse al día
— to be brought up to date with news
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Spanish:
ponerse al corriente
— to be brought up to date with news
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Spanish:
ponerse al tanto de
— to be brought up to date with news
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Dutch:
bijpraten
— to bring someone else up to date with the news
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Spanish:
poner al día
— to bring someone else up to date with the news
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Spanish:
poner al corriente
— to bring someone else up to date with the news
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Spanish:
poner al tanto de
— to bring someone else up to date with the news
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Spanish:
enterar
— to bring someone else up to date with the news
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Azerbaijani:
yetişmək
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Azerbaijani:
çatmaq
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Czech:
dohánět
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Czech:
dohnat
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Finnish:
saada kiinni
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Finnish:
saavuttaa
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Finnish:
kuroa välimatka umpeen
— to reach something that had been ahead
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French:
atteindre
— to reach something that had been ahead
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French:
rattraper
— to reach something that had been ahead
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German:
einholen
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Hebrew:
הִשִּׂיג
(hisíg)
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Hebrew:
הִדְבִּיק
(hidbíq)
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Hungarian:
utolér
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Hungarian:
beér
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Japanese:
追い付く
(oitsuku)
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Latin:
adīpiscor
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Polish:
dogonić
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Polish:
nadgonić
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Portuguese:
alcançar
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Portuguese:
recuperar o atraso
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Russian:
догоня́ть
(dogonjátʹ)
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Russian:
догна́ть
(dognátʹ)
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Slovak:
doháňať
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Slovak:
dohnať
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Spanish:
alcanzar
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Spanish:
ponerse al nivel de
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Spanish:
emparejar con
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Swedish:
hinna ifatt
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Swedish:
hinna ikapp
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Swedish:
komma ikapp
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Turkish:
yetişmek
— to reach something that had been ahead
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Russian:
навёрстывать
(navjórstyvatʹ)
— to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up
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Russian:
наверста́ть
(naverstátʹ)
— to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up
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Ukrainian:
надолу́жувати
(nadolúžuvaty)
— to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up
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Ukrainian:
надолу́жити
(nadolúžyty)
— to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up
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Spanish:
pasarle / purrirle / apurrirle factura
— to finally reach something inevitable
