Catches is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CATCHES in dictionary:

VERB:
• CATCH, to capture after pursuit
• intercept and hold (something which has been thrown, propelled, or dropped)
• intercept the fall of (someone)
• seize or take hold of
• grasp or try to grasp
• dismiss (a batsman) by catching the ball before it touches the ground
• capture (a person or animal that tries or would try to escape)
• succeed in reaching a person who is ahead of one.
• unexpectedly find oneself in (an unwelcome situation)
• surprise (someone) in an incriminating situation or in the act of doing something wrong
• come upon (someone) unexpectedly
• (of an object) accidentally become entangled or trapped in something
• fix or fasten in place
• reach in time and board (a train, bus, or aircraft)
• reach or be in a place in time to see (a person, performance, programme, etc.)
• attend or watch (a performance)
• perceive fleetingly
• hear or understand (something said), especially with effort
• succeed in evoking or representing
• strike (someone) on a part of the body
• contract (an illness) through infection or contagion
• become ignited and start burning
• (of an engine) fire and start running
• have (a part of one's body or clothing) become entangled or trapped in something
• engage (a person's interest or imagination)
• accidentally strike (a part of one's body) against something
NOUN:
• an act of catching something, typically a ball.
• a chance or act of catching the ball to dismiss a batsman
• an amount of fish caught
• a person considered desirable as a partner or spouse
• a game in which a ball is thrown back and forth between two or more players.
• a device for securing something such as a door, window, or box
• a hidden problem or disadvantage in an apparently ideal situation
• a round, typically one with words arranged to produce a humorous effect.
• an unevenness in a person's voice caused by emotion

Words related to CATCHES

catch12 catching16 caught12

Words that contain CATCHES

scatches15 bycatches21 recatches16 upcatches18 outcatches17 seecatches17 overcatches21

How to use CATCHES in a sentence

• He catches fish and crabs and goes around town selling them.
• Just as it is about to speak, it catches sight of you sideways, and words fail it.
• It catches you by the throat and makes you breathe funny.
• As she moves to and fro she catches sight of herself reflected in one of the many mirrors encased in what were once gorgeous frames hanging on the wall.
• This instrument catches the rays of the sun upon a mirror, and thence casts them to a distant receiving station.
• He seems to have eyes at the back of his head, for instantly he sees a fly in the air right behind him, makes a dash, catches it, and flies on to the next post.
• He walked through shining clouds far above an earth where one catches it.
• See with what art, as well as with what evident interest, De Quincey catches the very spirit of the plot.
• Margaret catches it, opens it hurriedly, and reads.
• If the country boy catches the most fish, it is simply because he is better acquainted with the places where the fish hide or feed.
• Thus, after dinner, our forefathers were accustomed to sing catches which were entirely destitute of anything approaching music.
• But it caught her nevertheless unprepared as death catches a sinner on his bed.
• He catches his friend one day in the corner of his library, standing with his back to the window to get the light on the book he is reading.
• He does not try to persuade her to sit for him, but he catches her pose just as she stands here.
• John the Baptist, wrench a stake from a fence, wind a rope round it, and pull it to and fro till it catches fire.
• When the first looking sees something that catches fire within, then does the inner fire affect the eye and more is seen.
• He catches what is characteristic in every nation as inevitably as he catches the physiognomy of a land with its skies and its waters, its flowers and its atmosphere.
• Again and again he lifted the ball high into the air and grinned as master after master dropped the catches.
• The February cusk school is the largest, and the best catches are made in the deep water about the edges of the ground.
• Within these limits good catches of cod are taken occasionally, and to a less extent the same is true of haddock.
• It lives on fish, which it catches in the manner you saw.

Similar words containing CATCHE without suffix s

catched15 catchen14 catcher14 catchers15 scatches15 bycatches21 recatches16 upcatches18 cowcatcher22 dogcatcher19 flycatcher23 outcatches17 spycatcher22 suncatcher17 seecatches17 cowcatchers23 dogcatchers20 flycatchers24 gnatcatcher19 molecatcher20 overcatches21 spycatchers23 suncatchers18 gnatcatchers20 molecatchers21 oystercatcher23 oystercatchers24

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