fetch
/fɛt͡ʃ/ verb B1- To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. · You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.· I'm thirsty. Can you fetch me a glass of water, please?
- To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. · If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000
- To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. · to fetch headway or sternway
- To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
- To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- To reduce; to throw.
- To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
He/she/it fetches · Past fetched · Past participle fetched · -ing form fetching
Verb forms
- Base form
- fetch
- He/she/it
- fetches
- Past
- fetched
- Past participle
- fetched
- -ing form
- fetching
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him.
The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new gown.
“Are you come to fetch me?” asked he.
“Even the trivial fact that in the year 1865 a picture by Greuze entitled ‘La Jeune Fille à l’Agneau’ fetched one million two hundred thousand francs—more than forty thousand pounds—at the Portalis sale may start a train of reflection in your mind.”
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