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catchingadjective capable of being passed by physical contact from one person to anothera cold is often catching before the symptoms even begin exciting a similar feeling or reaction in othersa catching smile that instantly puts patients at ease contagious, epidemic, infectious, spreading palpable, perceptible, tangibleirresistible(also irresistable), overpowering, overwhelmingdisarming, endearing, fetching, inviting, winning, winsome catchingverbpresent participle of catchto take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forciblywe tried to catch the kitten before she could sneak out the door bagging, capturing, collaring, copping(slang), corralling, getting, glomming, grabbing, grappling, hooking, landing, nabbing, nailing, netting, nobbling(British slang), rapping, seizing, snagging, snapping (up), snaring, snatching, trapping gloving, haltering, lassoing, ropingapprehending, arresting, detainingbaying, corneringclasping, clutching, fastening (on), fisting, grasping, gripping, holding, latching (on or onto), securingrending, wrestingenmeshing(also immeshing), ensnaring, entangling, entrapping, meshingabducting, kidnapping(also kidnaping), spiriting (away or off) taking hold (of) missing discharging, freeing, liberating, releasingdropping, loosening, unhanding to become affected with (a disease or disorder)you'll catch the flu for sure if you don't get a shot coming down (with), contracting, getting, going down (with)(chiefly British), sickening (with), taking breaking out (with)dying (from), succumbing (to)failing, languishing, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering, worsening coming back, gaining, healing, mending, recouping, recovering, recuperating, snapping backrallying, rebounding, recovering (from), shaking (off) to bring (something) to a standstillI caught myself just as I was about to step into the freshly poured concrete arresting, bringing up, checking, drawing up, fetching up, halting, holding up, pulling up, stalling, staying, stilling, stopping baffling, balking, blockading, blocking, bottlenecking, clogging, damming, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, obstructing, snagging, stemmingconcluding, cutting off, ending, terminatingcalling, discontinuing, suspendingchoking off, reining (in), repressing, squashing, squelching, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping (on), keeping up, persisting, running onadvancing, faring, going along, marching, moving, proceeding, progressing, wendingactuating, budging, driving, goading, impelling, propelling, pushing, spurring, stirring to put securely in place or in a desired positioncaught back her hair with a barrette anchoring, clamping, fastening, fixing, hitching, mooring, securing, setting embedding(also imbedding), entrenching(also intrenching), implanting, ingraining(also engraining), lodging, stuffing, wedging loosening, loosing, unfastening, unfixing, unloosening, unloosing extracting, prizing, prying, pulling, rooting (out), tearing (out), uprooting, wresting, yanking to have a clear idea ofI didn't catch the point you were making about our nation's foreign policy appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching on (to), cognizing, compassing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, discerning, getting, grasping, grokking, intuiting, knowing, making, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, seizing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging, understanding absorbing, digesting, taking inrealizingfathoming, penetrating, piercing picking up on missing misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misinterpreting, misperceiving, misreading, mistaking, misunderstanding to cause to believe what is untruea number of media outlets were caught by the woman's hard-luck story bamboozling, beguiling, bluffing, buffaloing, burning, conning, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, faking out, fooling, gaffing, gammoning, gulling, having, having on(chiefly British), hoaxing, hoodwinking, hornswoggling, humbugging, juggling, misguiding, misinforming, misleading, snookering, snowing, spoofing, stringing along, suckering, sucking in, taking in, tricking kidding, putting on, teasingbleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling doing a number on, leading one down the garden path(also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes undeceiving debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmaskingdisclosing, divulging, telling, unveilingdisabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-faceI'll catch you at the library tomorrow chancing (upon), encountering, happening (upon), meeting, stumbling (upon) accosting, confrontingfacing, greeting, salutingcolliding (with), crashing (into)crisscrossing, crossing, passinghitting (upon), lighting (upon), tumbling (to)reencountering(or re-encountering), remeeting bumping into, crossing paths (with), running across, running into, running upon avoiding, dodging, ducking, eluding, escaping, evading, shaking, shunning to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyesI looked out the window just in time to catch the neighbor's dog digging up my flower bed beholding, descrying, discerning, distinguishing, espying, eyeing(or eying), looking (at), noticing, noting, observing, perceiving, regarding, remarking, seeing, sighting, spotting, spying, viewing, witnessing identifying, making out, picking out, picking upattending (to), considering, heeding, marking, mindingstudying, watchingexamining, inspecting, scanning, scrutinizing, surveyingglancing (at), glimpsing, peering (at) getting a load of(slang), laying eyes on, setting eyes on disregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overpassing, passing overmissing, overlooking to move fast enough to get even withdespite the suspect's considerable lead, the fleet-footed police officer was able to catch him and make an arrest catching up (with), overhauling, overtaking chasing, pursuinggaining, reachingpassing, surpassing falling short in 1594 |