fetch
go or come after and bring or take back
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,305 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,552 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- go or come after and bring or take back also: bring, get, convey Get me those books over there, pleaseCould you bring the wine?
- be sold for a certain price also: bring in, bring The painting brought $10,000The old print fetched a high price at the auction
- take away or remove The devil will fetch you!
noun
- the action of fetching
fetch in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He is a hard one to fetch, that’s a fact.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The ranch-owner's foreman would fetch them out in a Ford.
The Bad Man: A Novel · Charles Hanson Towne · Chapter 1
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And he said, ‘I will go to the kitchen and fetch it myself.’
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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Are you out of your wits? my lord, I 'll fetch her back again.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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Brigs that figs for market gather, Homeward-bound upon the stretch, Encounter oft this uglier weather Yet in end their port they fetch.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1