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, 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, 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, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

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1. • Baseball
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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "catching":

   capture, capturing, catch

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1. Lars Bove:

   Previous governments have underestimated the problem, though this has changed with the present government, especially after Verviers, they still have some catching up to do.

2. Gurbir Grewal:

   This action involves breaches of trust by gatekeepers within the gatekeeper entrusted to audit many of our nation's public companies, it's simply outrageous that the very professionals responsible for catching cheating by clients cheated on ethics exams, of all things.

3. Thomas Fuller:

   Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

4. Daniel Romanchuk:

   It was a very tight finish, as it got later in the race, there's just more and more people catching up and making a bigger group, and then things got a little bit more tactical.

5. 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).