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catch heat

catch heat verb: to get into trouble with somebody; to be scolded or chastised.

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To get into trouble with somebody; to be scolded or chastised.
    • Another area in which corporations have been catching heat is in the area of environmental pollution, and justifiably so.1989, Edwin C. Sims, Capitalism, in Spite of it All, page 296
    Synonyms:
    catch hell

catch heat meaning in Bengali

catch heat in Bengali

কারো সাথে ঝামেলায় পড়া, তিরস্কার, বকুনি খাওয়া

Synonyms of catch heat

Forms of catch heat

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

Questions about catch heat

What does catch heat mean?
Catch heat means to get into trouble with somebody; to be scolded or chastised.
What is catch heat in Bengali?
Catch heat in Bengali is কারো সাথে ঝামেলায় পড়া, তিরস্কার, বকুনি খাওয়া. See Catch heat meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is catch heat?
Catch heat is a verb.
What is the past tense of catch heat?
The past tense of catch heat is caught heat.

Words near catch heat in the dictionary

  1. catch fence
  2. catch fences
  3. catch fire
  4. catch flies
  5. catch hands
  6. catch heat
  7. catch hell
  8. catch hold
  9. catch in 4k
  10. catch in possession
  11. catch it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catch heat (page history and authors); catch heat (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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