catching

English

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: catch‧ing
  • Rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ

Adjective

catching (comparative more catching, superlative most catching)

  1. (informal) contagious
  2. captivating; alluring
    • 2013, R. T. Wolfe, Dark Vengeance
      Bomb guy looked her up and down, not because he was an attractive man and she was possibly a catching woman.

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Noun

catching (countable and uncountable, plural catchings)

  1. The action of the verb catch.
    • 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary
      Though catchings of the breath and occasional syncope appear in the more early stages, yet they only become considerable and dangerous in the later […]

Verb

catching

  1. present participle of catch
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