• n.
    ⦿becoming infected
    lexical concept
  • catching cold is sometimes unavoidable
  • the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:catching
  2. enl:contracting
wn:interlingual indexili:i35817

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcatchingcontracting