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View definitions for caught up

caught up

adjective as in caught up (in)

verb as in mesmerize

verb as in embrangle

verb as in grip

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Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

Best Buy is caught up in the breakneck world of technological innovation.

In 2006, when the feds began interrogating Mehanna, the FBI caught up with Abousamra.

She starts running, then cut: she's across the field and Stewart has caught up with her.

Random House is also covering the legal fees of an innocent man called Barry who was caught up in the storm.

Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.

It was a white silk, with an immense train, of course, and without overskirt—simply caught up in a great puff behind.

Yung Pak's curiosity satisfied, they returned to the road, mounted their ponies, and quickly caught up with the rest of the party.

He gathered the heap and flung it into a corner, then caught up his hat and struck out for the loneliest part of the ranch.

The Comte de Lussigny twirled the tips of his moustache almost to his forehead and caught up his hat.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to caught up (in), such as: absorbed, attentive, engaged, engrossed, lost, and rapt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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