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CAUGHT UP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having become involved involuntarily
Example:
caught up in the scandal
Classified under:
Similar:
involved (connected by participation or association or use)
Context examples:
Her prolonged absence having caused some comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She sat without movement, her eyes steadfast upon him, scarcely breathing, caught up and out of herself, he thought, by the witchery of the thing he had created.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He forgot his gloves but he caught up his shoes and darted into the bedroom.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The latter, however, was not a man to be quelled by words, for he caught up his ell-measure sword-sheath and belabored the cursing clerk with it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She caught up her knitting, which had dropped out of her hands, gave me a sharp look through her specs, and said, in her short way, 'Finish the chapter, and don't be impertinent, miss'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He caught up a pen.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was stirred profoundly by the passing glimpse at the secret, and he was again caught up in the vision of sunlit spaces and starry voids—until it came to him that it was very quiet, and he saw Ruth regarding him with an amused expression and a smile in her eyes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Hordle John caught up the Lady Loring as though she had been a feather, and sprang with her into an open porch; while Aylward, with a whirl of French oaths, plucked at his quiver and tried to unsling his bow.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The minute he was put into bed on one side, he rolled out on the other, and made for the door, only to be ignominiously caught up by the tail of his little toga and put back again, which lively performance was kept up till the young man's strength gave out, when he devoted himself to roaring at the top of his voice.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He had time to note the light, fluffy something that hid her queenly head, the tasteful lines of her wrapped figure, the gracefulness of her carriage and of the hand that caught up her skirts; and then she was gone and he was left staring at the two girls of the cannery, at their tawdry attempts at prettiness of dress, their tragic efforts to be clean and trim, the cheap cloth, the cheap ribbons, and the cheap rings on the fingers.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
