Word Frequency
catch up
Definitions
verb
- tr to seize and take up (something) quickly
- when intr, often foll by with to reach or pass (someone or something), after following ⇒
he soon caught him up
- intr; usually foll by on or with to make up for lost ground or deal with a backlog (in some specified task or activity)
- tr; often passive to absorb or involve ⇒
she was caught up in her reading
- tr to raise by or as if by fastening ⇒
the hem of her dress was caught up with ribbons
Translations for 'catch up'
- British English: catch up
If you catch up with someone, you reach them by moving faster than them.I ran faster to catch up with him.kætʃ ʌp VERB - Arabic: يَلْحَقُ بِ
- Brazilian Portuguese: alcançar
- Chinese: 追上
- Croatian: dostići
- Czech: dohnat dohánětkoho za chůze
- Danish: indhente
- Dutch: inhalen
- European Spanish: alcanzarpersona
- Finnish: saada kiinni
- French: rattraper
- German: aufholen
- Greek: προφταίνω
- Italian: raggiungere
- Japanese: 追いつく
- Korean: 따라잡다
- Norwegian: nå igjen
- Polish: złapać łapać
- Portuguese: alcançar
- Romanian: a ajunge din urmă
- Russian: догнать
- Spanish: alcanzarLlegar a igualarse
- Swedish: hinna ifatt
- Thai: ตามทัน
- Turkish: ortasında kalmakçatışma/gösteri
- Ukrainian: наздоганяти наздогнати
- Vietnamese: đuổi kịp
Example Sentences Including 'catch up'
A few days later I call the girls from Ross County to catch up.Glasgow Herald (2001)
Any rival has got to do a lot of work in the next few years to catch up with him.Belfast Telegraph (2005)
Champion that he is, Armstrong got off the ground in a fury to catch up.Globe and Mail (2003)
I winced as I straightened up and tottered back down the street, which gave Richard the chance to catch up with me.KICK BACK (2002)
Maybe if I go out into the corridor and find a conductor I can catch up on some news.For the Love of a Stranger
Or the overall weather situation is much the same and we can catch up by a few hundred miles.Yachting Boating World (2005)
Rider was working on computer courses and planned to catch up on her high school education.canada.com (2004)
She swung on down the front walk, then waited patiently beside my car for me to catch up with her.No Body
The boy scrambled to his feet, a gold tooth gleaming in a sunny smile and ran to catch up with his troop.Three in One
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