upcaught en · ADJ
Etymology
From up- + caught.
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) Seized or caught up.
In ev'ry mouth / She [Scylla] bears upcaught a mariner away.
1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book XII.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 279, lines 117–118: