chase
/t͡ʃeɪs/ verb C2- To follow at speed.
- To hunt.
- To seek to attain. · The team are chasing their first home win this season.
- To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner. · He spends all his free time chasing girls.
- To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- To pressure another person; to nag · I am not chasing you, I am asking you to do it professionally!
- To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser. · I need something to chase this shot with.
- To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings. · Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.
He/she/it chases · Past chased · Past participle chased · -ing form chasing
Verb forms
- Base form
- chase
- He/she/it
- chases
- Past
- chased
- Past participle
- chased
- -ing form
- chasing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Toto had always loved to chase mice when he lived in Kansas, and he saw no harm in it.
The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, “It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions.” The Housedog replied, “Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others.”
“I will take the first share,” he said, “because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can.”
A HOUND, who in the days of his youth and strength had never yielded to any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar in the chase.
Other matches
- chase The act of one who chases another B1
- chase To groove B2
- chase A groove cut in an object C2
- chase A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pa... C2
- chase after Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- chase away To get rid of.
- chase down to pursue and apprehend someone or something.
- chase off To drive someone or something away.
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