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33 Definitions of: catch
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- verb, to take hold of so as to retain or restrain
- verb, to take, seize, or capture, esp after pursuit
- verb, to ensnare or deceive, as by trickery
- verb, to surprise or detect in an act
- verb, to reach with a blow
- verb, to overtake or reach in time to board
- verb, to see or hear; attend
- verb, to be infected with
- verb, to hook or entangle or become hooked or entangled
- verb, to fasten or be fastened with or as if with a latch or other device
- verb, to attract or arrest
- verb, to comprehend
- verb, to hear accurately
- verb, to captivate or charm
- verb, to perceive and reproduce accurately
- verb, to hold back or restrain
- verb, to become alight
- verb, cricket to dismiss (a batsman) by intercepting and holding a ball struck by him before it touches the ground
- verb, a) to grasp or attempt to grasp b) to take advantage (of), esp eagerly
- verb, to make pregnant
- verb, catch it to be scolded or reprimanded
- verb, catch oneself on slang to realize that one's actions are mistaken
- noun, the act of catching or grasping
- noun, a device that catches and fastens, such as a latch
- noun, anything that is caught, esp something worth catching
- noun, the amount or number caught
- noun, a person regarded as an eligible matrimonial prospect
- noun, a check or break in the voice
- noun, a break in a mechanism
- noun, a) a concealed, unexpected, or unforeseen drawback or handicap b) (as modifier)
- noun, a game in which a ball is thrown from one player to another
- noun, cricket the catching of a ball struck by a batsman before it touches the ground, resulting in him being out
- noun, music a type of round popular in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, having a humorous text that is often indecent or bawdy and hard to articulate. See round, canon, catch on, catch out, catch up
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©HarperCollins 2008. Collins English Dictionary definition of catch