caught
Definitions
Past tense and past participle of catch; captured or seized after pursuit.
Discovered or detected in the act of doing something, often something wrong.
Entangled, trapped, or held fast by an obstruction or mechanism.
Examples
The police caught the thief running down the alleyway.
I caught a glimpse of the sunset before the clouds covered the sky.
She caught a cold after walking home in the rain without an umbrella.
Synonyms
captured seized trapped snared apprehended arrested detected