"catch up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catches up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "catching up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "catch<,,caught> up"
      },
      "expansion": "catch up (third-person singular simple present catches up, present participle catching up, simple past and past participle caught up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 27 1 32 28 2 2 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 27 3 25 23 3 7 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 3",
          "text": "Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl, who caught up his hat and ran through the melon patch to join them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pick up suddenly."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_up-en-verb-D5NY5Gcb",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pick up suddenly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "86 1 4 5 0 2 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "grabvam",
          "sense": "to pick up suddenly",
          "word": "грабвам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 1 4 5 0 2 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to pick up suddenly",
          "word": "yakalamak"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To entangle."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_up-en-verb-1ZBc66M1",
      "links": [
        [
          "entangle",
          "entangle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To entangle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 91 2 1 0 2 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to entangle",
          "word": "enredar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 27 1 32 28 2 2 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 27 3 25 23 3 7 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be brought up to date with news."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_up-en-verb-3Q7LqHMR",
      "links": [
        [
          "news",
          "news"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be brought up to date with news."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 0 62 33 0 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be brought up to date with news",
          "word": "vaihtaa kuulumisia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 0 62 33 0 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be brought up to date with news",
          "word": "prendre des nouvelles"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 0 62 33 0 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be brought up to date with news",
          "word": "aufholen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 0 62 33 0 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to be brought up to date with news",
          "tags": [
            "pronominal"
          ],
          "word": "enterar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 27 1 32 28 2 2 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 27 3 25 23 3 7 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I have to miss the end of the meeting, but you can catch me up later.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring (someone) up to date with the news."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_up-en-verb-HeHQkftF",
      "links": [
        [
          "news",
          "news"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I'll go ahead and you can catch up with me later.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973 March 1, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “Time”, in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd",
          "text": "But you run / And you run to catch up with the sun / But it's sinking",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reach something that had been ahead."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_up-en-verb-dkL2G6qG",
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "ahead",
          "ahead"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To reach something that had been ahead."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "yetişmək"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "çatmaq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "saada kiinni"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "saavuttaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "kuroa välimatka umpeen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "atteindre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "rattraper"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "einholen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "hisíg",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "הִשִּׂיג"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "hidbíq",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "הִדְבִּיק"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "utolér"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "beér"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "alt": "おいつく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "oitsuku",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "追い付く"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "adīpiscor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "dogonić"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "nadgonić"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "alcanzar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "hinna ifatt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "hinna ikapp"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
          "word": "komma ikapp"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After a slow start, they've been catching up lately.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The sales quarter ends soon and we've got to try to catch up.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To compensate for or make up a deficiency."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_up-en-verb-en:compensate",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:compensate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "7 1 8 6 0 77 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "navjórstyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "навёрстывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 1 8 6 0 77 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "naverstátʹ",
          "sense": "to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "наверста́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 1 8 6 0 77 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nadolúžuvaty",
          "sense": "to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "надолу́жувати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 1 8 6 0 77 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nadolúžyty",
          "sense": "to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "надолу́жити"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His years of drinking were catching up with him.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Bardas Benetbunk, Musings of One Thousand and One Nights of Solitude, page 61",
          "text": "You are reminded that old age is catching up with you each time you read in the newspaper that another athlete whom you idolized when you were young just passed away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club",
          "text": "The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it)."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_up-en-verb-P9~Nx5Ds",
      "links": [
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "overtake",
          "overtake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of some inevitable phenomenon, with with) To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it)."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of some inevitable phenomenon",
        "with with"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "29 0 25 22 0 22 2 0",
      "word": "catch-up"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "3 0 47 48 0 1 1",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to bring someone else up to date with the news",
      "word": "bijpraten"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 0 47 48 0 1 1",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to bring someone else up to date with the news",
      "word": "poner al día"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 0 47 48 0 1 1",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to bring someone else up to date with the news",
      "word": "poner al corriente"
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catch ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "catch up (countable and uncountable, plural catch ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "catch-up"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of catch-up"
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_up-en-noun-hw8EG9Rz",
      "links": [
        [
          "catch-up",
          "catch-up#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "29 0 25 22 0 22 2 0",
      "word": "catch-up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal nouns",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catches up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "catching up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "catch<,,caught> up"
      },
      "expansion": "catch up (third-person singular simple present catches up, present participle catching up, simple past and past participle caught up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 3",
          "text": "Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl, who caught up his hat and ran through the melon patch to join them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pick up suddenly."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pick up suddenly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To entangle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "entangle",
          "entangle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To entangle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be brought up to date with news."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "news",
          "news"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be brought up to date with news."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I have to miss the end of the meeting, but you can catch me up later.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring (someone) up to date with the news."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "news",
          "news"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I'll go ahead and you can catch up with me later.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973 March 1, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “Time”, in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd",
          "text": "But you run / And you run to catch up with the sun / But it's sinking",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reach something that had been ahead."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "ahead",
          "ahead"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To reach something that had been ahead."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After a slow start, they've been catching up lately.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The sales quarter ends soon and we've got to try to catch up.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To compensate for or make up a deficiency."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:compensate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His years of drinking were catching up with him.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Bardas Benetbunk, Musings of One Thousand and One Nights of Solitude, page 61",
          "text": "You are reminded that old age is catching up with you each time you read in the newspaper that another athlete whom you idolized when you were young just passed away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club",
          "text": "The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "overtake",
          "overtake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of some inevitable phenomenon, with with) To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it)."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of some inevitable phenomenon",
        "with with"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
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      "word": "catch-up"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "grabvam",
      "sense": "to pick up suddenly",
      "word": "грабвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to pick up suddenly",
      "word": "yakalamak"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to entangle",
      "word": "enredar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be brought up to date with news",
      "word": "vaihtaa kuulumisia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be brought up to date with news",
      "word": "prendre des nouvelles"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be brought up to date with news",
      "word": "aufholen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be brought up to date with news",
      "tags": [
        "pronominal"
      ],
      "word": "enterar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to bring someone else up to date with the news",
      "word": "bijpraten"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to bring someone else up to date with the news",
      "word": "poner al día"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to bring someone else up to date with the news",
      "word": "poner al corriente"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "yetişmək"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "çatmaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "saada kiinni"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "saavuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "kuroa välimatka umpeen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "atteindre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "rattraper"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "einholen"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hisíg",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "הִשִּׂיג"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hidbíq",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "הִדְבִּיק"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "utolér"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "beér"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おいつく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "oitsuku",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "追い付く"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "adīpiscor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "dogonić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "nadgonić"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "alcanzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "hinna ifatt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "hinna ikapp"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to reach something that had been ahead",
      "word": "komma ikapp"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "navjórstyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "навёрстывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naverstátʹ",
      "sense": "to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "наверста́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nadolúžuvaty",
      "sense": "to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "надолу́жувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nadolúžyty",
      "sense": "to compensate for or make up a deficiency — see also make up",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "надолу́жити"
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch up"
}

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    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs"
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      "form": "catch ups",
      "tags": [
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