Antonyms for catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋcatch·ing

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1. • Baseball
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1. catchingnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

   Synonyms:
   spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detection

2. detection, catching, espial, spying, spottingnoun

   the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

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

3. catching, contractingadjective

   becoming infected

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

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

   Synonyms:
   spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detection

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

   (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

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

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1. catchingadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncontagious, incommunicable

   Synonyms:
   contagious, infectious, communicable, pestilential

2. catchingnoun

   Synonyms:
   seizure, apprehension, arrest

How to use catching in a sentence?

1. Neeraj Mistry:

   In catching those last few cases, that's when diagnostics become important, [Then we can] know if the parasite has been completely eliminated from the population.

2. Daniel Ang:

   The market is catching up with decreasing U.S. crude production. U.S. crude production has resumed its downtrend.

3. Bloomberg Intelligence:

   Metals are set to be primary beneficiaries of the Federal Reserve simply catching up to futures markets priced for easing. Further hikes are unlikely.

4. Randy Arnold:

   At this point, our best chance for catching this bear will be culvert traps set in the area near the chicken coop where the bear killed and ate several chickens.

5. Darryl Clinton:

   It's almost like catching a football, but you don't want to catch this football.

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