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catchesnounpl. of catch a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognizedthe catch is that you have to come up with the money by tomorrow booby traps, catch-22's(or catch-22s), gimmicks, gotchas, hitches, jokers, land mines, pitfalls, snags snares, traps, trip wires, webshazards, perils, risksbombs, bombshells, kickers, surprises(also surprizes)baits, decoys, lures someone or something unusually desirableeveryone thought the captain of the football team was a real catch gems, jewels, pearls, plums, prizes, treasures blessings, finds, godsends, goodies, valuables, windfallsbooties, loots, plunders, spoils, swagsbrass ringsglories, pridesgolds, jackpots, prize moneys, treasure troves lemons, losers the total amount collected or obtained especially at one timethe total catch for our day at the creek was six fish and a crab bounties, hauls, takes, yields bagsearnings, gains, grosses, incomes, nets, payoffs, proceeds, profits, receipts, returns, revenues, winningsbooties, loots, plunders, spoils, swagsappropriations, collections deductions, losses, subtractions catchesverbpresent tense third-person singular of catchto take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forciblywe tried to catch the kitten before she could sneak out the door bags, captures, collars, cops(slang), corrals, gets, gloms, grabs, grapples, hooks, lands, nabs, nails, nets, nobbles(British slang), raps, seizes, snags, snaps (up), snares, snatches, traps gloves, halters, lassos, ropesapprehends, arrests, detainsbays, cornersclasps, clutches, fastens (on), fists, grasps, grips, holds, latches (on or onto), securesrends, wrestsenmeshes(also immeshes), ensnares, entangles, entraps, meshesabducts, kidnaps, spirits (away or off) takes hold (of) misses discharges, frees, liberates, releasesdrops, loosens, unhands to become affected with (a disease or disorder)you'll catch the flu for sure if you don't get a shot comes down (with), contracts, gets, goes down (with)(chiefly British), sickens (with), takes breaks out (with)dies (from), succumbs (to)fails, languishes, sinks, wastes (away), weakens, wilts, withers, worsens comes back, gains, heals, mends, recoups, recovers, recuperates, snaps backrallies, rebounds, recovers (from), shakes (off) to bring (something) to a standstillI caught myself just as I was about to step into the freshly poured concrete arrests, brings up, checks, draws up, fetches up, halts, holds up, pulls up, stalls, stays, stills, stops baffles, balks, blockades, blocks, bottlenecks, clogs, dams, detains, hinders, holds, holds back, impedes, obstructs, snags, stemsconcludes, cuts off, ends, terminatescalls, discontinues, suspendschokes off, reins (in), represses, squashes, squelches, stanches(or staunches), stunts, suppresses, turns back carries on, continues, follows through (with), keeps (on), keeps up, persists, runs onadvances, fares, goes along, marches, moves, proceeds, progresses, wendsactuates, budges, drives, goads, impels, propels, pushes, spurs, stirs to put securely in place or in a desired positioncaught back her hair with a barrette anchors, clamps, fastens, fixes, hitches, moors, secures, sets embeds(also imbeds), entrenches(also intrenches), implants, ingrains(also engrains), lodges, stuffs, wedges loosens, looses, unfastens, unfixes, unloosens, unlooses extracts, pries, prizes, pulls, roots (out), tears (out), uproots, wrests, yanks to have a clear idea ofI didn't catch the point you were making about our nation's foreign policy appreciates, apprehends, assimilates, beholds, catches on (to), cognizes, compasses, comprehends, conceives, cottons (to or on to), deciphers, decodes, digs, discerns, gets, grasps, groks, intuits, knows, makes, makes out, perceives, recognizes, registers, savvies, sees, seizes, senses, tumbles (to), twigs, understands absorbs, digests, takes inrealizesfathoms, penetrates, pierces picks up on misses misapprehends, misconceives, misconstrues, misinterprets, misperceives, misreads, mistakes, misunderstands to cause to believe what is untruea number of media outlets were caught by the woman's hard-luck story bamboozles, beguiles, bluffs, buffaloes, burns, cons, cozens, deceives, deludes, dupes, fakes out, fools, gaffs, gammons, gulls, has, has on(chiefly British), hoaxes, hoodwinks, hornswoggles, humbugs, juggles, misguides, misinforms, misleads, snookers, snows, spoofs, strings along, suckers, sucks in, takes in, tricks kids, puts on, teasesbleeds, cheats, chisels, defrauds, diddles, euchres, fleeces, flimflams, gyps, hustles, mulcts, rooks, shortchanges, skins, squeezes, sticks, stings, swindles does a number on, leads one down the garden path(also leads one up the garden path), pulls one's leg, pulls the wool over one's eyes undeceives debunks, exposes, reveals, shows up, uncloaks, uncovers, unmasksdiscloses, divulges, tells, unveilsdisabuses, disenchants, disillusions to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-faceI'll catch you at the library tomorrow chances (upon), encounters, happens (upon), meets, stumbles (upon) accosts, confrontsfaces, greets, salutescollides (with), crashes (into)crisscrosses, crosses, passeshits (upon), lights (upon), tumbles (to)reencounters, remeets bumps into, crosses paths (with), runs across, runs into, runs upon avoids, dodges, ducks, eludes, escapes, evades, shakes, shuns to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyesI looked out the window just in time to catch the neighbor's dog digging up my flower bed beholds, descries, discerns, distinguishes, espies, eyes, looks (at), notes, notices, observes, perceives, regards, remarks, sees, sights, spies, spots, views, witnesses identifies, makes out, picks out, picks upattends (to), considers, heeds, marks, mindsstudies, watchesexamines, inspects, scans, scrutinizes, surveysglances (at), glimpses, peers (at) gets a load of(slang), lays eyes on, sets eyes on disregards, ignores, neglects, overpasses, passes overmisses, overlooks to move fast enough to get even withdespite the suspect's considerable lead, the fleet-footed police officer was able to catch him and make an arrest catches up (with), overhauls, overtakes chases, pursuesgains, reachespasses, surpasses falls short |