日本語WordNet
(baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
becoming infected; "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
JMdict
AIによる解説
Infectious or contagious (of a disease), or attractive and attention-grabbing. Can describe something that spreads easily or captures interest.
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The revelation came suddenly, catching everyone off guard and shattering their assumptions completely.
その啓示は突然やってきて、全員の不意を突き、彼らの思い込みを完全に打ち砕いた。
The situation presented a catch-22 dilemma: employees needed experience to get hired, but couldn't acquire experience without employment, creating an absurd predicament that perpetuated unemployment.
状況は袋小路のジレンマを提示した:従業員は雇用されるために経験を必要としたが、雇用なしに経験を得ることができず、失業を永続させる不条理な苦境を作り出した。
Pronunciation data from ipa-dict (MIT License) based on cmudict-ipa by @lingz