Definition of Catch out

1. Verb. Trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act. "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"

Exact synonyms: Find Out
Generic synonyms: Detect, Discover, Find, Notice, Observe

Definition of Catch out

1. Verb. To discover or expose as fake or insincere. ¹

2. Verb. (cricket) To put a batsman out by catching the batted ball before it touches the ground. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catch Out

catch big air
catch breath
catch cold
catch crop
catch dust
catch fence
catch fire
catch flies
catch hell
catch it
catch muscle
catch napping
catch on
catch one's breath
catch one's drift
catch out (current term)
catch phrase
catch phrases
catch sight of
catch some Z's
catch some z's
catch some zs
catch someone's eye
catch someone napping
catch the eye
catch the sun
catch up
catch up with
catch ups
catch you later

Literary usage of Catch out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics by James Ferguson (1776)
"... When the lever is pulled down, it lifts the catch out of the ratchet-wheel, by means of the rope Q,Q> and gives the weight F liberty to ..."

2. Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics by James Ferguson, Charles Frederick Partington (1839)
"When the lever is pulled down, it lifts the catch out of the ratchet-wheel, by means of the rope QQ, and gives the weight F liberty to descend : but if ..."

3. Life of James Ferguson, in a brief autobiographical account and further by James Ferguson (1870)
"When the lever is pulled down, it lifts the catch out of the ratchet-wheel, by means of the rope QQ, and gives the weight F liberty to descend. ..."

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