caught up
verb- Involuntarily involved in a situation. · The invited guest was caught up in a family quarrel.
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But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
There was no light save in the dining-room, but Holmes caught up the lamp and left no corner of the house unexplored.
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