to chase
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4.0
- verb
- /tʃeɪs/
- NSFW
- In romantic comedies, it's often portrayed that men should chase women to win their affection.
- chase women
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Watch on YouTubeBut men chase women and want the sex.
- But men chase women and want the sex.
- So there's a quote that says men chase women, not the other way around.
- And I was kind of chasing him, you know, age chasing.
- Do you believe a man should chase a woman all right, yes or no.
- All right, you should not have to chase, but you should express how you feel.
- And he's off it, college studying philosophy, chasing girls, sword fighting, riding horses.
- How can I invoke him to chase me?
- Like women don't want needy men who are like chasing them.
- What I mean by this is a lot of men continue to chase the same type of woman.
Examples
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She's been chasing after lads like usual.
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Queenie used to say that some men chased women their whole lives.
Fiction book (1990) -
But men chase women and want the sex.
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Do you believe a man should chase a woman all right, yes or no.
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How can I invoke him to chase me?
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So there's a quote that says men chase women, not the other way around.
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Well, he drinks like a fish, gambles every chance he can get and chases every poor woman who comes within a few feet of him.
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Yusra is a pretty Baghdad girl whom Karim chases relentlessly and offers to marry.
Academic text (1997) -
He decided to chase after her, hoping to finally express his true feelings.
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At the party, he was eager to chase her and make her laugh with his jokes.
Synonyms
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2.1
Try to get something you want or follow someone to catch them
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3.5
To try to get something you want, like a job or a goal
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7.8
Try to show romantic or sexual interest in someone by making advances
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4.6
To try to get someone's love or romantic feelings
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4.2
To try to win someone's love, often to form a serious relationship
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5.3
To try to attract someone you like, often with gifts or kind words
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3.7
To try to begin a romantic relationship with someone
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9.9
Try to have romantic or sexual relationships with many women, often not seriously
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4.1
Try hard to get attention, approval or love from other people
To try to get someone to marry you
To try to have sex with many different people
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
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9.9
Try to have romantic or sexual relationships with many women, often not seriously
Phrasal Verbs
- NSFW
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9.3
To keep trying to feel the same excitement you felt the first time, often by taking risks or using drugs
Compounds
- Offensive
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8.9
A lawyer who goes to accidents or emergencies to find clients for injury cases
- Archaic
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7.7
A game where some players run ahead leaving bits of paper while others follow to catch them before the finish
- Slang
Contacting people hurt in accidents to get them as clients for a lawyer, often seen as dishonest
- Slang
A practice of rushing to contact people after accidents to get clients, often seen as unfair
How Persistent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chase in a romantic sense comes from that old idea of 'hunting', so to chase someone for love is to pursue their interest, much like a 'hunt' for someone's attention.