Crossword-Solution: CATCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Catch | v. t. | To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball. |
| Catch | v. t. | To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. |
| Catch | v. t. | To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish. |
| Catch | v. t. | Hence: To insnare; to entangle. |
| Catch | v. t. | To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. |
| Catch | v. t. | To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building. |
| Catch | v. t. | To engage and attach; to please; to charm. |
| Catch | v. t. | To get possession of; to attain. |
| Catch | v. t. | To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire. |
| Catch | v. t. | To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing. |
| Catch | v. t. | To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. |
| Catch | v. i. | To attain possession. |
| Catch | v. i. | To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open. |
| Catch | v. i. | To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch. |
| Catch | v. i. | To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate. |
| Catch | n. | Act of seizing; a grasp. |
| Catch | n. | That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate. |
| Catch | n. | The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch. |
| Catch | n. | That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. |
| Catch | n. | Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. |
| Catch | n. | Passing opportunities seized; snatches. |
| Catch | n. | A slight remembrance; a trace. |
| Catch | n. | A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with CATCH (5)
Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time.
VIII Hiawatha’s Fishing Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, On the shining Big-Sea-Water, With his fishing-line of cedar, Of the twisted bark of cedar, Forth to catch the sturgeon Nahma, Mishe-Nahma, King of Fishes, In his birch canoe exulting All alone went Hiawatha.
Justly thou abhorr’st That Son, who on the quiet state of men Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue Rational Libertie; yet know withall, Since thy original lapse, true Libertie Is lost, which alwayes with right Reason dwells Twinn’d, and from her hath no dividual being: Reason in man obscur’d, or not obeyd, Immediately inordinate desires And upstart Passions catch the Government From Reason, and to servitude reduce Man till then free.
When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one that should fall first.
White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to their masters.
Quotes with CATCH (3)
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, onc…
Bburke used to, whenever he went to the city to catch a Yankees game, throw his money around to every homeless man on the street, feeling it was the right thing to do; except one time he did that and he got to the stadium and realized he didn’t have enough money for the Bud Light tall boy he always got during the third inning. And in him he felt an unyielding rise of contempt for the himself of only hours ago, that he was something and now is something and that they aren’t th…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 141 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).