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Synonyms for Catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋcatch·ing

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  1. catchingnoun

    (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team

    Synonyms:
    spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detection

    Antonyms:
    noninfectious

  2. detection, catching, espial, spying, spottingnoun

    the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

    Synonyms:
    detective work, spying, staining, sleuthing, sensing, detecting, detection, signal detection, catching, espial, maculation, undercover work, spotting, contracting

    Antonyms:
    noninfectious

  3. catching, contractingadjective

    becoming infected

    "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"

    Synonyms:
    spying, espial, spotting, catching, contracting, detection

    Antonyms:
    noninfectious

  4. catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableadjective

    (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

    Synonyms:
    inherited, genetic, communicable, contagious, transmittable, ancestral, catching, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

    Antonyms:
    noninfectious

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. catchingnoun

    Synonyms:
    seizure, capture, arrest, apprehension

  2. catchingadjective

    Synonyms:
    infectious, contagious, pestilential, pestiferous

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  1. catchingadjective

    Synonyms:
    contagious, infectious, communicable, pestilential

    Antonyms:
    noncontagious, incommunicable

  2. catchingnoun

    Synonyms:
    seizure, apprehension, arrest

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "catching":

    capture, capturing, catch

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How to use Catching in a sentence?

  1. Rukshana Nanayakkara:

    China's fight against corruption focuses on prosecution, a very top-down way of fighting corruption, the whole campaign of catching 'tigers' and 'flies,' and from this summer the 'foxhunt' (the worldwide operation to track down fugitive officials) they all talk about prosecution, punishing people.

  2. Paul Hunter:

    The large majority of infectious disease specialists think, and have thought for many months, that SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, our grandchildren's grandchildren will still be catching( the virus).

  3. Lorne Baring:

    European equity markets are catching the tailwind from the U.S. after strong close yesterday. Investors are showing resilience to the recent attacks in Paris despite mounting worries over security in Europe, overall there is a macro tailwind for European equities. The monetary policy of the ECB will continue to weaken the euro versus other major currencies. We are continuing to recommend an overweight in European equities.

  4. G. K. Chesterton:

    The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

  5. Bruce Zaro:

    We've had a consolidation of the move up, the market is catching up to itself.


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