catch up
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
reach the point where one should be after a delay
I caught up on my homework
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- follow entails
Sense 2 verb
learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened
I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology
Types & categories
- learn hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | follow |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | reach |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | come back |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | learn |