Antonyms for catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋcatch·ing

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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. Greg Senters:

   It’s called fishing, it’s not called catching, so I told him we may not catch anything, but he said it doesn’t matter, he said just being out there doing this was just as good.

2. Paul Hunter:

   Our grandchildren's grandchildren will still be catching( the virus).

3. Rachel Balkovec:

   It's just a little bit of everything right now, kind of catching up on the defensive end of things and still spending some time in the cages with hitting and still keeping my foot there. So it's really all over the map right now.

4. Mr Garbutt:

   It took about an hour for the snake catcher to coax it out. The snake was trying to bite the snake hook. The guy ended up catching it with his hand and just chucked it in a bag.

5. Lee So-yeon:

   North Korean army units and security agencies are running many businesses to earn foreign currency from mining gold to catching fish on the west and east coasts.

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