Synonyms for catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋ

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1. catching(noun)

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

   Synonyms:
   spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detection

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

2. detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting(noun)

   the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

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

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

3. catching, contracting(adj)

   becoming infected

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

   Synonyms:
   spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detection

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

4. catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable(adj)

   (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

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

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. catching(n.)

   Synonyms:
   seizure, capture, arrest, apprehension

2. catching(a.)

   Synonyms:
   infectious, contagious, pestilential, pestiferous

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. catching(a)

   Synonyms:
   contagious, infectious, communicable, pestilential

   Antonyms:
   noncontagious, incommunicable

2. catching(n)

   Synonyms:
   seizure, apprehension, arrest

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1. List of paraphrases for "catching":

   capture, capturing, catch

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How to use catching in a sentence?

1. Dave Barry:

   If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

2. Dan Elwell:

   Silicon Valley is used to doing changes in their tech generations in months. The FAA and the big aviation world is used to doing technological refreshes and changes in decades, so the federal level is catching up, but it’s impossible to say how long it’s going to take because we don’t know the extent to which drones are going to come into the space.

3. Big Lots:

   We still have a lot of catching up to do in our digital business.

4. Thomai Serdari:

   Tiffany is a textbook example of what is happening in retail, finally, they are catching up. They have missed opportunities in the past, but they understand that they have powerful brand and the brand was not expressed well in real life.

5. Liu Dong:

   Compared with other industry players, our international business started late. But we're catching up.

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