to catch up with

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to catch up with - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Catch \Catch\, v. i.
     1. To attain possession. [Obs.]
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              Have is have, however men do catch.   --Shak.
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     2. To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light
        obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches
        so as not to open.
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     3. To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
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     4. To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
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              Does the sedition catch from man to man? --Addison.
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     To catch at, to attempt to seize; to be eager to get or
        use. "[To] catch at all opportunities of subverting the
        state." --Addison.
  
     To catch up with, to come up with; to overtake.
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