Another Word For CATCH_UP

fetch up

Verb : (intransitive) To arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To overtake.

Verb : (intransitive and transitive) To vomit.

catch

Noun : (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.

Noun : (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.

Noun : (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

pick up

Verb : (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.

Verb : (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.

Verb : (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).

run after

Verb : To follow quickly, often in an effort to catch or catch up with (someone or something).

Verb : To make a determined effort to win someone's affections or to have a sexual relationship with them.

Verb : To endeavour to find or obtain.

catch out

Verb : (transitive) To discover or expose as fake, insincere, or inaccurate.

Verb : (transitive) To take (someone) by surprise.

Verb : (transitive, cricket) To put a batsman out by catching the batted ball before it touches the ground.

get a run on

Verb : To catch up with and get a chance at passing or overtaking.

overhent

Verb : (obsolete) To catch hold of; to overtake.

whip up

Verb : (transitive) To produce (something) quickly, especially food.

Verb : (transitive) To beat (stir) (a liquid) quickly so to introduce air and form foam.

Verb : (transitive) To arouse or excite.

snap up

Verb : (transitive, colloquial) To buy or acquire quickly, usually because the item is a bargain or in short supply or something one has been searching for.

Verb : (transitive, colloquial, archaic) To snap at (a person); to speak harshly to.

snatch

Noun : A quick grab or catch.

Noun : A short period.

Noun : (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.

overcatch

Verb : (transitive, UK dialectal) To overtake.

Verb : To catch too many; to overfish.

pick up speed

Verb : To accelerate.

snap it up

Verb : (chiefly US, idiomatic, dated) To hurry, to proceed quickly.

bump up

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To increase something suddenly.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To promote a person to a higher grade.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To give a more prominent place to; to advance position in queue.

pickup

Noun : An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.

Noun : In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.

Noun : Electromagnetic coil receiver of metal string oscillations.

snag

Noun : A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.

Noun : A dead tree that remains standing.

Noun : A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.

kick off

Verb : (ambitransitive) To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.

Verb : (ambitransitive, idiomatic) To start; to launch; to set in motion.

Verb : (transitive) To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.

chop it up

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop up.

Verb : (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To catch up with a person, especially after a long time apart; to discuss.

click

Noun : A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.

Noun : (British) The act of snapping one's fingers.

Noun : (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

jump

Noun : The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

Noun : An effort; an attempt; a venture.

Noun : (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

pick up the pace

Verb : (idiomatic) To begin moving or working faster.

start

Noun : The beginning of an activity.

Noun : A sudden involuntary movement.

Noun : The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.

break

Noun : An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.

Noun : A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.

Noun : An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.

jump on

Verb : To board a vehicle.

Verb : (idiomatic) To attack verbally, to criticise excessively.

Verb : (idiomatic) To take immediate action regarding; to avail oneself of without delay.

swoop

Noun : An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.

Noun : A sudden act of seizing.

Noun : (music) A quick passage from one note to the next.

upsnatch

Verb : (transitive) To seize or snatch up.

grab

Noun : (countable) A sudden snatch at something.

Noun : (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.

Noun : (countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.

jump in

Verb : To enter something quickly, usually a mode of transport.

Verb : To join in on an activity quickly.

Verb : To interrupt someone while they are speaking.

start up

Verb : (intransitive) To rise suddenly.

Verb : (transitive) To commence the operation of; to activate; to launch.

Verb : (intransitive) To begin to operate.

surge

Noun : A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.

Noun : The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.

Noun : (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.

jump-cut

Verb : (ambitransitive, film) To abruptly transition to a later moment of the scene.

Verb : (intransitive, figurative) To abruptly shift one's focus toward a later point in time; to fast-forward.

Verb : (intransitive, American football) To perform a jump cut.

catch napping

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To surprise; to take advantage of the lack of watchfulness of.

gain

Noun : The act of gaining; acquisition.

Noun : The thing or things gained.

Noun : (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.

overhie

Verb : (chiefly Scotland) To overtake; to catch up with.

resnatch

Verb : (transitive) To snatch again.

run up on

Verb : (transitive) To approach with speed or forceful intensity

Verb : (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To confront with hostility

Verb : (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To hit on (somebody).

crop up

Verb : (intransitive, idiomatic) To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.

pile on

Verb : (ambitransitive) To jump on top of someone or something quickly.

Verb : (ambitransitive, figurative) To criticize someone or something in a concerted effort; to add on some additional critique.

Verb : (intransitive, figurative, sports) To unnecessarily extend the margin of a winning score.

overhend

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To overtake.

move in on

Verb : (transitive) To come closer to, as if to catch or hunt.

Verb : (transitive, by extension) To encroach or prepare to take over (a thing, relationship, task or place that is or was somebody else's).

chop

Noun : A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

Noun : A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.

Noun : (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

kick in

Verb : To kick; to collapse or break by kicking.

Verb : (transitive) To kick or strike so as to cause the object struck to collapse or fall inwards.

Verb : (transitive, slang) To kick or strike (a person); to beat up.

regrab

Verb : (transitive) To grab again.

get after

Verb : To move into action in pursuit of something.

Verb : To move into action in attempt to catch or defeat another.

Verb : To attempt to convince another to move into action.

gather pace

Verb : To start to happen more quickly; to accelerate.

retrieve

Verb : (transitive) To regain or get back something.

Verb : (transitive) To rescue (a creature).

Verb : (transitive) To salvage something

ride down

Verb : (idiomatic, equestrianism, transitive) To cause (a horse) to fall when riding.

Verb : (transitive) To catch or catch up with (someone) by chasing on horseback or in a vehicle.

Verb : (nautical) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.

pounce

Noun : (historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.

Noun : (historical) Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.

Noun : A sudden leaping attack.

jump out

Verb : (idiomatic) To emerge suddenly.

Verb : (programming) To exit a loop, function, etc. ending its execution before it has reached its terminating condition.

Verb : (idiomatic, by extension) To be obviously, noticeably different; to capture an observer's attention at once.

grabble

Noun : (obsolete) A method of fishing using a line with several hooks fastened to it along with a lead weight so that the hooks sit on the bottom.

turn up

Verb : (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.

run into

Verb : (intransitive but with prepositional object, literally) To enter by running.

Verb : (intransitive but with prepositional object) To collide with.

Verb : (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to collide with.

fetch

Verb : (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

Verb : (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Verb : (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

break into

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To enter illegally or by force, especially in order to commit a crime.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To open or begin to use.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To successfully enter a profession or business.

clock up

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To accumulate (an amount of time or experience).

Verb : (transitive, figuratively, British) To cover (a distance) over time.

chase down

Verb : to pursue and apprehend someone or something.

Verb : (by extension) to investigate the cause of something

pull up

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To lift upwards or vertically.

Verb : To pull forward.

chase up

Verb : (British, New Zealand, transitive) To follow up, so as to ensure completion.

overtake

Verb : To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).

Verb : (economics) To become greater than something else

Verb : To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away

bump into

Verb : (intransitive, literally) To collide with.

Verb : (transitive, literally) To cause (a thing) to collide with.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To meet by chance.

scoop up

Verb : to pick up or clear up by scooping

Verb : To take enthusiastically.

Verb : (transitive) To grab or pick up something by accident.

creep up on

Verb : (transitive) To sneakily arrive near someone in a position to startle them; to startle someone by creeping up behind them.

hurry

Noun : Rushed action.

Noun : Urgency.

Noun : (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.

outcatch

Verb : (transitive) To catch more or better than.

back up

Verb : (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.

Verb : (idiomatic, transitive) To move a vehicle backwards.

Verb : (idiomatic, intransitive) To undo one's actions.

leapfrog

Noun : (games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated.

Noun : (chiefly British, law, usually attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.

Noun : (slang, humorous) Laphroaig whisky.

snap

Noun : A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.

Noun : A sudden break.

Noun : An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.

rebound

Noun : The recoil of an object bouncing off another.

Noun : A return to health or well-being; a recovery.

Noun : An effort to recover from a setback.

sneak up

Verb : To approach a person or animal without being seen or heard

Verb : To deliver a sudden effect, often unexpectedly and without warning.

snaffle

Noun : A broad-mouthed, loose-ringed bit (metal in a horse's mouth). It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and bars and corners of the mouth, and is often used as a training bit.

Noun : (figuratively) Decorative wear that looks like a snaffle.

leap into action

Verb : to begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.

run up

Verb : To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.

Verb : (with to) To approach (an event or point in time).

Verb : (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.

grab off

Verb : To hurriedly and forcibly take, appropriate or seize control of; to arrest (someone).

race out of the traps

Verb : (idiomatic) To start something very quickly.

catapult

Noun : A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.

Noun : A mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.

Noun : (UK) A slingshot.

grasp

Noun : (sometimes figurative) Grip.

Noun : Understanding.

Noun : That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

patch up

Verb : (idiomatic) To repair by adding a patch.

Verb : (idiomatic, transitive) To mend quickly.

Verb : (idiomatic, figuratively) To repair relations; to improve relations.

pick up one's crumbs

Verb : (slang, archaic) To recuperate or recover, such as after an illness or injury.

clip

Noun : Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

Noun : An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.

Noun : (obsolete) An embrace.

pull up on

Verb : (idiomatic, slang) To come to, visit.

Verb : (idiomatic, slang) To call out or criticise someone for something they have done wrong.

Verb : (African-American Vernacular, slang) To a do a drive-by on (someone).

overjump

Verb : (transitive) To jump over.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To omit or ignore.

Verb : (intransitive) To jump too far or too high.

start out

Verb : To emerge suddenly; to jump out.

Verb : To be or become conspicuous; to stand out.

Verb : To begin.

pull ahead

Verb : (idiomatic, intransitive) To move into a winning position (e.g. in a race or competition).

shoot

Noun : The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

Noun : A photography session.

Noun : A hunt or shooting competition.

sit up

Verb : (intransitive) To assume a sitting position from a position lying down.

Verb : (intransitive) To sit erect.

Verb : (intransitive) To show sudden interest or surprise.

snaffle up

Verb : (transitive, informal) To devour greedily.

spring up

Verb : (intransitive) To appear suddenly.

Verb : (intransitive, figuratively) To come rapidly into existence.

fast forward

Noun : The feature that allows media to be fast-forwarded.

Noun : A button that causes media to be fast forwarded.

Noun : (figuratively) A state of rapid advancement.

rake

Noun : (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.

Noun : (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

Noun : (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.

bite off

Verb : To bite so hard as to remove something from its source.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic, sometimes followed by on) To accept or commit oneself to a task, project, notion, or responsibility, especially one which presents challenges.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To acquire, especially in an abrupt or forceful manner.

charge down

Verb : (intransitive, idiomatic, of an electrical device) To lose electrical power

Verb : (transitive) To run towards something in an effort to stop it going forward.

keep pace

Verb : (idiomatic) To run at the same speed as a pacesetter

Verb : (idiomatic) To progress at the same rate as another; to keep up

follow

Verb : (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.

Verb : (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).

take by storm

Verb : (transitive, military) To capture by means of a sudden, overwhelming attack.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To seize, overpower, or captivate in a sudden and forceful manner.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To rapidly gain great popularity in (a place).

hitch up

Verb : To fasten up.

Verb : To pull up, or raise with a jerking movement.

Verb : To attach (a horse, etc.) to a vehicle.

get the drop on

Verb : (transitive, informal) To point one's firearm at another person, thereby gaining dominance in a situation.

Verb : (transitive, informal, by extension) To obtain an advantage over another person, by acting before that person.

pursue

Verb : (ambitransitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.

Verb : (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).

foresnatch

Verb : (transitive, very rare, UK, dialectal) To snatch in advance.

burst in

Verb : (idiomatic) to enter suddenly and unexpectedly

catch step

Verb : To match the pace (of another person or a beat).

Verb : (figurative) To change so as to function harmoniously with; fit in.

Verb : (figurative) To adjust to advances in circumstances or criteria; catch up.

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