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catch out

verb

  1. informal.
    tr, adverb to trap (a person), esp in an error or doing something reprehensible
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

"All right," he said, fighting hard to keep the catch out of his voice.

I catch out on an average about eighteen to twenty every fall, so as to catch them before they increase early in the spring.

As the detective, with a smart blow back of its head, put his catch out of misery, Bartlett spoke.

Then everybody goes in with their hands and throws the catch out on the sand.

Then the fielder woke up, and threw to second, hoping to catch out Holly, who was somewhat undecided.

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