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becaught

becaught is the simple past and past participle of becatch.

Meaning of becatch

Verb

becatch (third-person singular simple present becatches, present participle becatching, simple past and past participle becaught)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To lay hold of; seize upon.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To take by craft or trickery; beguile; cheat; deceive.

Questions about becaught

What is becaught the simple past and past participle of?
Becaught is the simple past and past participle of becatch.

Words near becaught in the dictionary

  1. becasts
  2. becatch
  3. becatches
  4. becatching
  5. becatecarin
  6. becaught
  7. because
  8. because is why
  9. because of
  10. because one can
  11. because reasons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: becaught (page history and authors); becatch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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