Catching: alternatives and connections

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectio…

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Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectio…

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of Acquire

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The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

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To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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of Get

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of Play

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of Uncover

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Detected.

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Detected.

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Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

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Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

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of Contract

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The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a pl…

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The act of espying; notice; discovery.

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of Spot

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of Spy

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Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.

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