catch up

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En español: enredar, enterarse, ponerse al día, ponerse al corriente

To pick up suddenly. (transitive)
To entangle (something). (transitive) · The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.
To involve in (something); to embroil. (transitive) · That's why she got caught up in addiction.
To be brought up to date with news. (intransitive) · I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.
To bring (someone) up to date with the news. (transitive) · After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes.· I have to miss the end of the meeting, but you can catch me up later.
To reach something that had been ahead. · Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.· I'll go ahead and you can catch up with me later.
To compensate for or make up a deficiency. (intransitive) · After a slow start, they've been catching up lately.· The sales quarter ends soon and we've got to try to catch up.
To finally overtake or overpower (someone or something) after a long period of approaching or threatening (them or it). (Said especially of self-destructive behaviours that take years to bring about negative outcomes.) (intransitive) · His years of drinking were catching up with him.· The company's creative accounting had finally caught up with it.

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But, you see, we have five years’ lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla.”

Anne of Green Gables, p. 328 · C1

Why stare at a wall when you can catch up on the news?

In Defense of Boredom, p. 1 · C1

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