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caughtadjective containing unborn young within the bodyafter several years of trying to have a baby, the couple was surprised when they discovered she was caught big, enceinte, expectant, expecting, gone, gravid, heavy, pregnant, quick(archaic) parturient, prenatalchildbearing, gestationalbroodingconceiving, impregnated with child, with young nonpregnant barren, infertileaborting, miscarryingdelivered taken and held prisonerafter seeing how the caught soldiers had been treated, we resolved never to be taken alive apprehended, arrested, captive, captured, confined, imprisoned, incarcerated, interned, jailed bound, enslaved, indenturedensnared, trappedabducted, kidnapped(also kidnaped)subdued, subjugatedoccupied behind bars free unconfined, unrestraineddelivered, emancipated, enfranchised, freed, liberated, paroled, released caughtverbpast tense of catchto take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forciblywe tried to catch the kitten before she could sneak out the door bagged, captured, collared, copped(slang), corralled, glommed, got, grabbed, grappled, hooked, landed, nabbed, nailed, netted, nobbled(British slang), rapped, seized, snagged, snapped (up), snared, snatched, trapped gloved, haltered, lassoed, ropedapprehended, arrested, detainedbayed, corneredclasped, clutched, fastened (on), fisted, grasped, gripped, held, latched (on or onto), securedrent(also rended), wrestedenmeshed(also immeshed), ensnared, entangled, entrapped, meshedabducted, kidnapped(also kidnaped), spirited (away or off) took hold (of) missed discharged, freed, liberated, releaseddropped, loosened, unhanded to become affected with (a disease or disorder)you'll catch the flu for sure if you don't get a shot came down (with), contracted, got, sickened (with), took, went down (with)(chiefly British) broke out (with)died (from), succumbed (to)failed, languished, sank(or sunk), wasted (away), weakened, wilted, withered, worsened came back, gained, healed, mended, recouped, recovered, recuperated, snapped backrallied, rebounded, recovered (from), shook (off) to bring (something) to a standstillI caught myself just as I was about to step into the freshly poured concrete arrested, brought up, checked, drew up, fetched up, halted, held up, pulled up, stalled, stayed, stilled, stopped baffled, balked, blockaded, blocked, bottlenecked, clogged, dammed, detained, held, held back, hindered, impeded, obstructed, snagged, stemmedconcluded, cut off, ended, terminatedcalled, discontinued, suspendedchoked off, reined (in), repressed, squashed, squelched, stanched(or staunched), stunted, suppressed, turned back carried on, continued, followed through (with), kept (on), kept up, persisted, ran onadvanced, fared, marched, moved, proceeded, progressed, wended, went alongactuated, budged, drove, goaded, impelled, propelled, pushed, spurred, stirred to put securely in place or in a desired positioncaught back her hair with a barrette anchored, clamped, fastened, fixed, hitched, moored, secured, set embedded(also imbedded), entrenched(also intrenched), implanted, ingrained(also engrained), lodged, stuffed, wedged loosed, loosened, unfastened, unfixed, unloosed, unloosened extracted, pried, prized, pulled, rooted (out), tore (out), uprooted, wrested, yanked to have a clear idea ofI didn't catch the point you were making about our nation's foreign policy appreciated, apprehended, assimilated, beheld, caught on (to), cognized, compassed, comprehended, conceived, cottoned (to or on to), deciphered, decoded, discerned, dug, got, grasped, grokked, intuited, knew, made, made out, perceived, recognized, registered, savvied, saw, seized, sensed, tumbled (to), twigged, understood absorbed, digested, took inrealizedfathomed, penetrated, pierced picked up on missed misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misperceived, misread, mistook, misunderstood to cause to believe what is untruea number of media outlets were caught by the woman's hard-luck story bamboozled, beguiled, bluffed, buffaloed, burned(or burnt), conned, cozened, deceived, deluded, duped, faked out, fooled, gaffed, gammoned, gulled, had, had on(chiefly British), hoaxed, hoodwinked, hornswoggled, humbugged, juggled, misguided, misinformed, misled, snookered, snowed, spoofed, strung along, sucked in, suckered, took in, tricked kidded, put on, teasedbled, cheated, chiseled(or chiselled), defrauded, diddled, euchred, fleeced, flimflammed, gypped, hustled, mulcted, rooked, shortchanged, skinned, squeezed, stuck, stung, swindled did a number on, led one down the garden path(also led one up the garden path), pulled one's leg, pulled the wool over one's eyes undeceived debunked, exposed, revealed, showed up, uncloaked, uncovered, unmaskeddisclosed, divulged, told, unveileddisabused, disenchanted, disillusioned to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-faceI'll catch you at the library tomorrow chanced (upon), encountered, happened (upon), met, stumbled (upon) accosted, confrontedfaced, greeted, salutedcollided (with), crashed (into)crisscrossed, crossed, passedhit (upon), lit (upon)(or lighted (upon)), tumbled (to)reencountered(or re-encountered), remet bumped into, crossed paths (with), ran across, ran into, ran upon avoided, dodged, ducked, eluded, escaped, evaded, shook, shunned 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 beheld, descried, discerned, distinguished, espied, eyed, looked (at), noted, noticed, observed, perceived, regarded, remarked, saw, sighted, spied, spotted, viewed, witnessed identified, made out, picked out, picked upattended (to), considered, heeded, marked, mindedstudied, watchedexamined, inspected, scanned, scrutinized, surveyedglanced (at), glimpsed, peered (at) got a load of(slang), laid eyes on, set eyes on disregarded, ignored, neglected, overpassed, passed overmissed, overlooked 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 caught up (with), overhauled, overtook chased, pursuedgained, reachedpassed, surpassed fell short in 1858 |