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adj. Infectious.

adj. Attractive; catchy.

v. Present participle of catch.

n. The action of the verb catch.

adj. contagious

adj. Infectious; contagious.

adj. Captivating; alluring.

n. The act of seizing or taking hold of.

Communicating, or liable to be communicated, by contagion; infectious.

Captivating; charming; attracting: as, a catching melody; a catching manner.

Acquisitive; greedy.

n. becoming infected

adj. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

n. the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

n. (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team

"Marisela stepped back, the use of her name catching her off guard."

infectious   

getting    acquiring    uncovering    discovery    find    playing   

infectious    contagious    captivating    alluring    inoculable    communicable    taking    pestilential    pestiferous    noxious   

catch   

attaching    dispatching    hatching    latching    matching    patching    scratching    snatching