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Synonyms for catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋcatch·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
catchingnoun
(baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
Synonyms:
spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detectionAntonyms:
noninfectiousdetection, catching, espial, spying, spottingnoun
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, contractingAntonyms:
noninfectiouscatching, contractingadjective
becoming infected
"catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"
Synonyms:
spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detectionAntonyms:
noninfectiouscatching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableadjective
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Synonyms:
inherited, genetic, communicable, contagious, transmittable, ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmittedAntonyms:
noninfectious
Dictionary of English Synonymes
catchingnoun
Synonyms:
seizure, capture, arrest, apprehensioncatchingadjective
Synonyms:
infectious, contagious, pestilential, pestiferous
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
catchingadjective
Synonyms:
contagious, infectious, communicable, pestilentialAntonyms:
noncontagious, incommunicablecatchingnoun
Synonyms:
seizure, apprehension, arrest
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#3635 | catch | |
#4006 | capture | |
#4059 | detection | |
#4344 | genetic | |
#6210 | transmitted | |
#6952 | contracting | |
#8058 | inherited | |
#10584 | sensing | |
#11121 | catching | |
#13591 | capturing | |
#14002 | detecting | |
#16503 | spying | |
#18402 | spotting | |
#18622 | staining | |
#22771 | ancestral | |
#23757 | hereditary | |
#24384 | familial | |
#26169 | contagious | |
#28206 | communicable | |
#70078 | transmissible | |
#100683 | sleuthing | |
#178828 | patrimonial | |
#238022 | transmittable | |
#281085 | espial |
How to use catching in a sentence?
I prefer to be cautious and protect my father rather than give him a vaccine about which we still know little, he risks catching the virus but it would be like any other disease.
He's one of the hottest players in the world, what he's done the last year or two years, nobody's catching him. It's just a cake walk.
ALASKA WOMAN GETS 60 YEARS FOR SETTING COUCH ABLAZE WITH BOYFRIEND ON IT Contra Costa Fire Department spokesman Steve Hill said the tanks held varying amounts of ethanol. One tank alone contained around 167,000 gallons of the flammable substance. Approximately 200 firefighters were battling the blazes using foam on the flames and water to cool adjacent tanks to prevent them from catching fire. Officials closed Interstate 80, one of the busiest in the Bay Area at the peak of rush hour, causing major traffic jams.The California Highway Patrol said the closure was expected to last at least until midnight. CALIFORNIA LYFT DRIVER IS PULLED OVER SO POLICE CAN ARREST HER PASSENGER One Rodeo resident, One Rodeo resident, told The Associated Press he was sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic trying to get home to his teenage son. His son had called him to say he heard a loud explosion. It literally rocked the house and then soon after, he heard what sounded like a jet plane.
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will still be catching( the virus).
I feel great, the biggest issue for me was the catching of the joint and the pain that created. So that all is gone. … I do n’t have to think about it locking up on me again and creating that pain, so I feel great.
Translations for catching
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- заразителенBulgarian
- CapturaPortuguese
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