fetch

About 4.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

   You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.

2. verb 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

3. verb To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

   to fetch headway or sternway

4. verb To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5. verb To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
6. verb To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
7. verb To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.

   to fetch a man to

8. verb To reduce; to throw.

Similar words

get bring bring in convey pull in draw in pull draw attract retrieval

Often followed by

the a him it me her water them you his

Word family

fetched fetcher fetchers fetches fetching fitch