catching
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Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
catching (comparative more catching, superlative most catching)
- (informal) contagious
- 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.
- 2013, R. T. Wolfe, Dark Vengeance
Hyponyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
informal: contagious
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Noun[edit]
catching (countable and uncountable, plural catchings)
- 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 […]
- 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary
Verb[edit]
catching