catch up

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative spelling of catch-up. alt-of,alternative,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To pick up suddenly. transitive
    — Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl, who caught up his hat and ran through the melon patch to join them.
  2. To entangle (something). transitive
    — The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.
  3. To involve in (something); to embroil. broadly,transitive
    — That's why she got caught up in addiction.
  4. To be brought up to date with news. intransitive
    — I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.
  5. To bring (someone) up to date with the news. transitive
    — After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes.
  6. To reach something that had been ahead. ambitransitive
    — Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.
  7. To compensate for or make up a deficiency. intransitive
    — After a slow start, they've been catching up lately.
  8. To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it). intransitive
    — His years of drinking were catching up with him.

词形变化

catches up present,singular,third-person catching up participle,present caught up participle,past caught up past catch-up alternative catch ups plural catch-up alternative
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