to fetch

Examples

• All

• After the accident, the ambulance was called to fetch the injured survivors.

• Pray for forgiveness, Miss Eyre, or something bad will come down that chimney and fetch you away.

  Jane Eyre (2011)

• I went there yesterday to fetch some clothes for the burial, on the instructions of the police.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Well, it was in the dream, the same one that sent Muriel to fetch you.

  Mountain Top (2017)

• Your mother says you saw the carriage that came to fetch Dr Kruvajan.

  Black Sunday (1977)

• "All the local sorcerers predict that a bolt from heaven will fetch him in the end."

  Academic text (1991)

• "Then I fear you've done unwisely, Duncan, and it shall go ill with you when you come to fetch Elizabeth as your bride."

  Fiction book (1999)

• They sent a rescue team to fetch the hikers stranded on the mountain.

• The old legends warned that the forest spirits could fetch anyone who wandered too far from the path.

Synonyms

C

to catch

vsto fetch

∞ 1.0

To take hold of a moving person or thing to stop it

is about being claimed or carried away by death or a spirit

P

to pick up

vsto fetch

∞ 2.5

To get something from a store or give someone a ride

frames removal as a claim by death or spirits rather than casual collection

G

to grab

vsto fetch

200 4.5

To take power or money in a dishonest, selfish way

portrays being carried off by death or otherworldly power in a literary tone

S

to snatch

vsto fetch

• NSFW

55 7.2

To take someone away by force to ask for money

is a literary or humorous idea of being taken by death or spirits

S

to snatch up

vsto fetch

24 4.6

To grab something quickly, often before someone else

is about being taken away by death or a supernatural force

G

to get hold of

vsto fetch

24 2.5

To take something in your hand

casts removal as a supernatural or fatal claiming rather than simple physical grasp

Phrasal Verbs

P

to play fetch

6 1.9

A game where you throw a ball for a dog to run after and bring back

F

to fetch and carry

• Informal

1 5.7

To do small, simple tasks or errands for someone in charge

F

to fetch the mail

• US

1 1.9

To go and collect letters and packages from a mailbox

F

to fetch the mail

• Specialized

3.4

To get new email messages from a mail server to your device

F

to fetch up

• UK

7.7

To finally arrive somewhere after a long or unexpected journey

F

to fetch up

• UK

7.2

To find something without expecting it while searching

M

to make fetch happen

• Slang

9.9

To try to get a new word or fashion to become popular

Compounds

F

fetch-and-carry task

• Informal

6.6

A simple, boring job doing small errands and chores

F

fetch-and-carry task

• Specialized

7.2

A robot action to pick up an object and carry it to a place

Surface Forms

Etymology