Fetch
[fetʃ] or [fɛtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) the action of fetching.
(verb.) take away or remove; 'The devil will fetch you!'.
(verb.) be sold for a certain price; 'The painting brought $10,000'; 'The old print fetched a high price at the auction'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
(v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
(v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
(v. t.) To reduce; to throw.
(v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
(v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
(v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
(v. i.) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
(n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
(n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Bring (when one goes for the purpose of bringing), go and bring.[2]. Perform, make, effect.[3]. Sell for.[4]. (Naut.) Reach, attain, arrive at, come to, get to.
n. Trick, artifice, ruse, stratagem, dodge, sharp practice.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BRING]
Edited by Lester
Definition
n. the apparition double or wraith of a living person.—n. Fetch′-can′dle a nocturnal light supposed to portend a death.
v.t. to bring: to go and get: to obtain as its price: to accomplish in any way: to bring down to cause to yield: to reach or attain.—v.i. to turn: (naut.) to arrive at.—n. the act of bringing: space carried over: a stratagem.—adj. Fetch′ing fascinating.—Fetch and carry to perform humble services for another; Fetch a pump to pour water in so as to make it draw; Fetch out to draw forth develop; Fetch to to revive as from a swoon; Fetch up to recover: to come to a sudden stop.
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Examples
- He went to fetch the water. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Will you fetch him, my child, or shall I? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They were interrupted by Miss Bennet, who came to fetch her mother's tea. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But fetch him now for this should get there quickly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I took a candle and went softly in to fetch it from its shelf. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He has a white Pony to come and fetch him, and a groom in livery on a bay mare. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It has fetched a penny. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They fetched her in the pony-chaise, and are going to bring her back. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I returned to the window and fetched it thence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I knew where there were plenty of shawls near at hand; I ran and fetched one. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Instead of entering the house at once he fetched a spade from a little shed and began to work in the garden. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- An anxious quarter of a hour elapsed; the jury came back; the judge was fetched in. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Rushworth is so long fetching this key! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Jane's solicitude about fetching her own letters had not escaped Emma. Jane Austen. Emma.
- If I had made any difficulty about fetching the key, there might have been some excuse, but I went the very moment she said she wanted it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He certainly could not be all this time fetching his shortsword from the Thark's cell, spoke another. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Handsome things enough, but fetching nothing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is in the fetching and carrying manufactures, accordingly, that foreign trade is chiefly employed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At last the enemy retreats, and then Smallweed fetches Mr. Jobling up. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The man who fetches our letters every morning (one of our men, I forget his name) shall inquire for yours too and bring them to you. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It never comes out of my mouth but it fetches an old snag along with it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Remember, Elinor, said she, how very often Sir John fetches our letters himself from the post, and carries them to it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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