catch on
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
understand, usually after some initial difficulty
She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
Types & categories
- savvy hypernym
Sense 2 verb
become popular
This fashion caught on in Paris
Types & categories
- change hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | savvy |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |