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catch up with1Succeed in reaching a person who is ahead of one: you go with Stasia and Katie, and I’ll catch up with you...- I shook my head slightly at those thoughts and jogged a little faster, catching up with Matt and Liz ahead.
- They had actually reached the car when he caught up with them.
- There were policemen running after him, but it was clear just by the photo that they had no chance of catching up with them.
2Talk to (someone) whom one has not seen for some time in order to find out what they have been doing: it’s a chance to catch up with old friends...- Two female former schoolmates whom I caught up with two weeks ago also found themselves single recently.
- Like all these things, it was a good chance to catch up with old friends!
- Pat said the evening was a chance to catch up with old friends and was thoroughly enjoyable.
3Begin to have a damaging effect on: the physical exertions began to catch up with Sue...- They began sparring again, but Kristy soon found that her lack of proper amounts of sleep was beginning to catch up with her.
- All these days and nights without sleep were beginning to catch up with him.
- My patient's unhealthy lifestyle began to catch up with him peripheral vascular disease, a stroke, and then angina.
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