German-English translations for ertappen

bust
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I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.He busted huge air off that jump!He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination
catch
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Everything hinges, of course, on inspections and on the way in which we catch the polluters in the act. Die ganze Sache steht und fällt natürlich mit den Kontrollen und der Art und Weise, in der wir Verschmutzer auf frischer Tat ertappen. The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.The player made an impressive catch.