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Webster 1913 Edition
Catching
Catch′ing
Adj.
1.
Infectious; contagious.
2.
Captivating; alluring.
Catch′ing
,Noun.
The act of seizing or taking hold of.
Catching bargain
(Law)
, a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price.
Bouvier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Catching
CATCHING
,ppr.
CATCHING
,Adj.
Definition 2024
catching
catching
English
Adjective
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
Translations
informal: contagious
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Noun
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
catching
- present participle of catch