To capture, overtake. • To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). • To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive. • To marry or enter into a similar relationship with. • To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc. • To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for. • To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something). • To travel by means of. • To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.) • To seize hold of. • To grab, seize, take hold of. • To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep. • To grip or entangle. • To be held back or impeded. • To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process. • To have something be held back or impeded. • To make a grasping or snatching motion (at). • To spread or be conveyed to. • To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke. • To germinate and set down roots. • To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore. • To handle an exception. • To intercept. • To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). • To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs. • To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce. • To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher. • To receive (by being in the way). • To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.). • To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure. • To become infected by (an illness). • To spread by infection or similar means. • To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.). • To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence. • To be hit by something. • To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish. • To get pregnant. • To take in with one's senses or intellect. • To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. • To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment). • To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully. • To seize attention, interest. • To charm or entrance. • To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense). • To notice.