Meaning

1 senses

  1. To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Trawling causes a devastating waste of life in the form of bycatch.

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Origin

substratebor.?

substratebor.?

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Forms

bycatches, bycatching, bycaught, bycaught
Base formbycatch · to bycatch
3rd person singularbycatches
Present participlebycatching
Past simplebycaught
Past participlebycaught

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybycatch
he, she, itbycatches

Past simpleLesson

all personsbycaught

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bycaught
he, she, ithas bycaught

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bycatch

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
byA1byeA1bygone

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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