Verb: catch up
- Reach the point where one should be after a delay
"I caught up on my homework"
- Learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened
"I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology"
Derived forms: caught up, catches up, catching up
See also: catch
Type of: acquire, arrive at, attain, gain, hit, larn [informal], learn, make, reach