CATCH COLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catch cold mean? 

• CATCH COLD (verb)
  The verb CATCH COLD has 1 sense:

1. come down with a cold

  Familiarity information: CATCH COLD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATCH COLD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come down with a cold

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "catch cold" is one way to...):

catch (contract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I wish you may not catch cold.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I feared she might catch cold sitting there, and asked her to come in and sleep with me, so she came into bed, and lay down beside me; she did not take off her dressing gown, for she said she would only stay a while and then go back to her own bed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The only thing I do not thoroughly like is, that she seems to be sitting out of doors, with only a little shawl over her shoulders—and it makes one think she must catch cold.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)