fetch

  • 31fetch — I. verb Etymology: Middle English fecchen, from Old English fetian, feccan; perhaps akin to Old English fōt foot more at foot Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to go or come after and bring or take back < fetch a doctor > b …

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  • 32fetch up — Synonyms and related words: accomplish, achieve, apprentice, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be received, blow in, bob up, break, break in, breed, bring up, bring up short, cease fire, check in, clock in, come, come in …

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  • 33fetch — fetch1 verb 1》 go for and bring back. 2》 achieve (a particular price) when sold. 3》 (fetch up) informal arrive or come to rest. 4》 informal inflict (a blow) on. 5》 archaic bring forth (blood or tears).     ↘take (a breath). noun 1》 the distance&#8230; …

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  • 34fetch — verb 1) he went to fetch a doctor Syn: (go and) get, go for, call for, summon, pick up, collect, bring, carry, convey, transport 2) the land could fetch a million dollars Syn: sell for …

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  • 35fetch — verb 1) he went to fetch a doctor Syn: go and get, go for, call for, summon, pick up, collect, bring, carry, convey, transport 2) the land could fetch millions Syn: sell for …

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  • 36fetch up — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms fetch up : present tense I/you/we/they fetch up he/she/it fetches up present participle fetching up past tense fetched up past participle fetched up British informal to arrive at a place by accident or&#8230; …

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  • 37fetch-up — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun ( s) Etymology: fetch up : an abrupt stop (as at the end of a fall) injured in the fetch up of the toboggan against the tree …

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  • 38Fetch — Als Fetch (auch Windlauflänge oder Wirkweg) wird die Länge der Anlaufstrecke eines Windes über einer Wasserfläche bezeichnet. Führt die Anlaufstrecke des Windes über Wasser (See oder Meer), so erzeugt der Wind bei somit größerem Wirkweg eine&#8230; …

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  • 39fetch — verb Fetch is used with these nouns as the object: ↑doctor, ↑help, ↑pail, ↑price, ↑sum, ↑water …

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  • 40fetch — [OE] Fetch comes from the Old English verb fetian ‘go and get’, which survived dialectally as fet well into the 19th century. In the late Old English period a variant feccan developed, from which we get the modern fête 216 English verb’s /ch/&#8230; …

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