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chase down

chase down verb: to pursue and apprehend someone or something.

Verb

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

  1. to pursue and apprehend someone or something.
    • With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine.2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC
  2. (broadly) to investigate the cause of something

Forms of chase down

third-person singular presentchases down
present participlechasing down
past participlechased down
pastchased down

Questions about chase down

What does chase down mean?
Chase down means to pursue and apprehend someone or something.
What part of speech is chase down?
Chase down is a verb.
What is the past tense of chase down?
The past tense of chase down is chased down.

Words near chase down in the dictionary

  1. chase after
  2. chase away
  3. Chase County
  4. Chase doll
  5. Chase dolls
  6. chase down
  7. chase gun
  8. chase guns
  9. chase moonbeams
  10. chase off
  11. chase one's own tail

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