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See also:catchupandcatch-up

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catchup (third-person singular simple presentcatches up,present participlecatching up,simple past and past participlecaught up)

  1. (transitive) To pick up suddenly.
  2. (transitive) Toentangle (something).
    The speaker wires have gotcaught up with the wires from the lights.
  3. (transitive, by extension) To involve in (something).
    That's why she gotcaught up in addiction.
  4. (intransitive) To be brought up to date withnews.
    I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great tocatch up.
  5. (transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with thenews.
    After Alice's vacation, her bosscaught herup on policy changes.
    I have to miss the end of the meeting, but you cancatch me up later.
  6. (ambitransitive) To reach something that had beenahead.
    Rose was three seconds behind, but managed tocatch up with the race leader and eventually won.
    I'll go ahead and you cancatch up with me later.
  8. (intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency.
    Hyponym:storm
    After a slow start, they've beencatching up lately.
    The sales quarter ends soon and we've got to try tocatch up.
  9. (intransitive, of some inevitable phenomenon, withwith) To finallyovertake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it).
    His years of drinking werecatching up with him.
    • 2008, Bardas Benetbunk,Musings of One Thousand and One Nights of Solitude, page61:
      You are reminded that old age iscatching up with you each time you read in the newspaper that another athlete whom you idolized when you were young just passed away.
    • 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, inThe Onion AV Club‎[1]:
      The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercisecatching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.

Translations

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to pick up suddenly
to entangle
to be brought up to date with news
to bring someone else up to date with the news
to reach something that had been ahead
to compensate for or make up a deficiency—see alsomake up
to finally reach something inevitable
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked‌: "reach a point"
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked‌: "to find out after the event"

Noun

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catchup (countable anduncountable,pluralcatch ups)

  1. Alternative spelling ofcatch-up
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