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chace

chace is the obsolete spelling of chase.

Meaning of chase

Verb

chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)

  1. (transitive) To follow at speed.
  2. (transitive) To hunt.
  3. (transitive) To seek to attain.
    • The team are chasing their first home win this season.
  4. (transitive) To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.
    • He spends all his free time chasing girls.
  5. (transitive) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
  6. (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
    • I need something to chase this shot with.

See all 42 meanings of chase

Proper noun capitalized: Chace

Chace

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

Forms of chace

Verb
third-person singular presentchaces
present participlechacing
past participlechaced
pastchaced
Noun
pluralchaces

Origin of chace

Variant of Chase.

Questions about chace

What does chace mean?
Chace means a surname originating as an occupation.
What is chace the obsolete spelling of?
Chace is the obsolete spelling of chase.
What part of speech is chace?
Chace is a proper noun.

Words near chace in the dictionary

  1. chacate
  2. Chacato
  3. Chacatos
  4. chacco
  5. chaccos
  6. chace
  7. chaced
  8. chaces
  9. Chacewater
  10. Chach
  11. chacha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chace (page history and authors); Chace (page history and authors); chase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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