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Catch on Moderate

Catch on has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

understand, usually after some initial difficulty

"She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"

2

become popular

"This fashion caught on in Paris"

3

To begin to understand; to realize.

See Also
burn take on popular be on to get it standard brown realize
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
grok change
Rhyming Words
in on go on pin on let on not on hop on man on run on tie on mid on put on set on try on sit on bet on get on yak on fly on hot on act on
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