CAUGHT UP Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

caught up

verb

Definition of caught up next

past tense of catch up

as in trapped

to catch or hold as if in a net a young idealist who got caught up in the political fanaticism of the times

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as in fascinated

to hold the attention of as if by a spell completely caught up in opera ever since he saw La Traviata

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as in interested

to hold the attention of so caught up in the game that she didn't note the passage of time

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as in informed

to give information to catch me up on what's been happening at the office

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Recent Examples of caught up Earlier this month, CBS LA anchor Pat Harvey caught up with the family at their rental, a townhouse in Arcadia. —

Pat Harvey, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026 The statement came as Native Americans are often caught up in sweeps being conducted by ICE. —

Ben Fenwick, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Feb. 2026 Software Software stocks — which were at the center of a historic sell-off just last week — also got caught up in Thursday's drawdown, but were mixed on Friday morning. —

Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2026 As Troy’s welfare officer, Claypole tries to reconnect him with his estranged mother, Troy is increasingly caught up in the institution’s brutal hierarchy and is eventually forced to make impossible choices. —

Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2026 You’re caught up on most everything. —

John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026 Second, Obama didn’t send scores of ICE and CBP agents storming into cities to scoop up non-citizens for deportation (with some citizens caught up in the mix), terrorizing everyone and leading to violence in the streets. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026 Set up your streaming ahead of time and get caught up on Bad Bunny's best tunes before his halftime performance. —

Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026 The day-to-day grind, the responsibility of three dozen players and a dozen staff, and all the challenges of a long season finally caught up to one of the fiercest competitors on the UF campus. —

Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026

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The three skiers who were not trapped in the avalanche then began a companion search and were able to rescue three of the victims alive, the report said.

— Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
The script was assembled from real arguments between the couple, reframed as a cinematic metaphor for being trapped in a communicative spiral, as their characters’ attempts to reconnect devolve into murder.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Feb. 2026