catch up

== English == === Alternative forms === catch-up === Pronunciation === === Verb === catch up (third-person singular simple present catches up, present participle catching up, simple past and past participle caught up) (transitive) To pick up suddenly. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To entangle (something). (transitive, chiefly passive voice, by extension) To involve in (something); to embroil. (intransitive) To be brought up to date with news. (transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news. (ambitransitive) To reach something that had been ahead. (intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency. Hyponym: storm (intransitive, of some inevitable phenomenon, with with) To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it). ==== Translations ==== === See also === play catch-up === Noun === catch up (countable and uncountable, plural catch ups) Alternative spelling of catch-up.