What does chase mean?
Chase means The act of one who chases another; a pursuit..
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/t͡ʃeɪs/ · noun
The act of one who chases another; a pursuit..
By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.
Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not.
So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.
Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness.
As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,
Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
I need something to chase this shot with.
Use chase when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chase means The act of one who chases another; a pursuit..
Common synonyms include pursue, game, furrow, pursuit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.
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