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catch cold

catch cold is the alternative form of catch a cold.

Meaning of catch a cold

Verb

catch a cold (third-person singular simple present catches a cold, present participle catching a cold, simple past and past participle caught a cold)

  1. (idiomatic) To contract a cold.
  2. (idiomatic) To encounter difficulties.
    • Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze.2014 March 22, Rupert Jones, “Retiring abroad? Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze”, in The Guardian

Forms of catch cold

third-person singular presentcatches cold
present participlecatching cold
past participlecaught cold
pastcaught cold

Questions about catch cold

What is catch cold the alternative form of?
Catch cold is the alternative form of catch a cold.

Words near catch cold in the dictionary

  1. catch bet
  2. catch bets
  3. catch big air
  4. catch breath
  5. catch breaths
  6. catch cold
  7. catch colt
  8. catch colts
  9. catch cries
  10. catch crop
  11. catch crops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catch cold (page history and authors); catch a cold (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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