caught

caught

adjective

Definition of CAUGHT

1

containing unborn young within the body <worried that the heedless girl would get caught before the summer was over>

Synonyms big, caught, enceinte, expectant, expecting, gone, gravid, heavy, quick [archaic]

Related Words parturient, prenatal; childbearing, gestational; brooding; conceiving, impregnated

Near Antonyms barren, infertile; aborting, miscarrying; delivered

Antonyms nonpregnant

2

taken and held prisoner <after seeing how the caught soldiers had been treated, we resolved never to be taken alive>

Synonyms apprehended, arrested, captured, caught, confined, imprisoned, incarcerated, interned, jailed

Related Words bound, enslaved, indentured; ensnared, trapped; abducted, kidnapped (also kidnaped); subdued, subjugated; occupied

Near Antonyms unconfined, unrestrained; delivered, emancipated, enfranchised, freed, liberated, paroled, released

Antonyms free