fetch

Plural: fetches

Noun

the action of fetching
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
An act of fetching data.
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

Verb

Verb Forms: fetched, fetching, fetches

To go after and bring back something.
go or come after and bring or take back
- "The dog fetched the hat"
be sold for a certain price
- "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
take away or remove
- "The devil will fetch you!"
To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
To reduce; to throw.
To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

Intj

Minced oath for fuck.

Examples

a fetch from a cache
His last play of ’ZAX’ managed to FETCH him enough points for the win.
I'm thirsty. Can you fetch me a glass of water, please?
If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000
to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap
to fetch a man to
to fetch headway or sternway
You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.

Origin / Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”).
The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

Synonyms

bring, bring in, convey, get, collect, contrivance, dodge

Antonyms

take away

Scrabble Score: 13

fetch: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fetch: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fetch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

fetch: valid Words With Friends Word