Meaning

(transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
2. (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
3. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
4. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5. (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
6. (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
8. (transitive) To reduce; to throw.

Example Sentences

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?

SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.

He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.

If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000

Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.

My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

Word Forms

• fetches
• fetching
• fetched
• fatch
• fotch

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