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  1. transitive verb To capture or seize, especially after a chase.
  2. transitive verb To take by or as if by trapping or snaring.
  3. transitive verb To discover or come upon suddenly, unexpectedly, or accidentally: He was caught in the act of stealing.
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  • And they're not thrown back as by-catch, they're eaten. —  Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish
  • It was well after one in the morning before she finished with what she called her catch-up news. —  Garwood, Julie - Prince Charming
  • This version of catch was the way he worked out his frustrations. —  GaspingforAirtime
  • Holmes was rightfully named MVP for the catch, and he capped it off with a LeBron James-like baby-powder celebration. —  BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs
  • • 11: 55 - Getting closer to town Lance catches up with John who kept pedaling when we stopped last, but as the catch is made John isn't able to latch on. —  PezCyclingNews.com
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English cacchen, from Old North French cachier, to chase, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English catchen, cachen, cacchen, kachen, kacchen (also kecchen, later English dial. ketch) (preterit caught, cought, caughte, cauʒte, cahte, caʒte, kagte, etc., rarely cached, katched, past participle caught, caght, kauht, caht, caʒt, etc., rarely cached, cachet) = Dutch kaatsen = Middle Low German katzen, play at tennis, from Old French cacher, cachier, cacier (Picard), reg. assibilated chacier, French chasser (later English chase, q. v.) = Provencal cassar = Old Spanish cabzar, Spanish cazar = Portuguese caçar = Italian cacciare, chase, hunt, from Middle Latin *captiare (for which only caciare is found), an extended form of Latin captare, catch, catch at, chase, freq. of capere, past participle captus, take: see capable, captive, etc. Cf. chase, a doublet of catch.
  2. from catch, v. Cf. chase, n.
 

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