to fetch
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1.0
- verb
- /fɛtʃ/
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- Children in rural areas can help overburdened parents by fetching water or fuelwood.
- go and fetch
- fetch and carry
- fetch water
Jack and Jill to fetch a pail of water.
- Jack and Jill to fetch a pail of water.
- Sort of like when you get a dog to fetch your morning newspaper.
- And George used to fetch his bag, you know, his bag cases.
- We, we work at the, you know, we help fetch water, we help cook.
- But they, he fetched me back, dropped me off and he went on his way.
- You would have as much success as I would have in asking my cat to fetch my slippers.
- I knew water intimately in the sense that, like most girls in Kenya, I had fetched water in the river.
- And then go back and, you know, fetch water and chop wood, you know, Yeah, to use the famous phrase.
Examples
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Fetch the burgundy blazer from my portmanteau, will you?
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Master, can we fetch some water to put out the fire?
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Now be an angel and fetch me that glass of water.
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Should I go and fetch your mother?
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Would you fetch it for me, please?
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I'll go and fetch it.
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Why don't you go fetch the wine?
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Maybe Dad should go and fetch Mum a cool flannel.
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Fetch a stool, Antoninus.
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Could you please fetch me the keys from the kitchen?
Synonyms
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1.0
To move away from a place or leave it
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1.0
To take someone or something with you to a place
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2.5
To get something from a store or give someone a ride
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3.7
To go and get something and bring it back, for example a dog bringing a ball
Phrasal Verbs
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Fetch comes from the Old English word feccan, which meant 'to bring' or 'go for something'. So to fetch something is to go and get it and bring it back.