catching - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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catching (comparative more catching, superlative most catching)

  1. (informal) Infectious, contagious.
  2. Captivating; alluring; catchy.
    • 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.

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 […]

catching

  1. present participle and gerund of catch

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