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Meaning of ধরা in English

  • of Ache
  • That aches; continuously painful. See Ache.
  • To take or seize; to take hold of.
  • Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
  • To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
  • To know or learn with certainty.
  • To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
  • To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
  • To be apprehensive; to fear.
  • of Apprehend
  • of Arrest
  • To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
  • To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
  • To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
  • Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
  • To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.
  • To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
  • To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
  • To get possession of; to attain.
  • To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.
  • To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
  • To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
  • To attain possession.
  • To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.
  • To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
  • To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
  • Act of seizing; a grasp.
  • That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
  • The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.
  • That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.
  • Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.
  • Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
  • A slight remembrance; a trace.
  • A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.
  • of Catch
  • imp. & p. p. of Catch.
  • of Crimp
  • of Entrap
  • of Ignite
  • of Overdo

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