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fetch up

fetch up verb: to arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly.

Verb

fetch up (third-person singular simple present fetches up, present participle fetching up, simple past and past participle fetched up)

  1. (intransitive) To arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly.
    • We panicked again for a moment, but the wind switched direction without warning, and we slowly drifted away till we fetched up at Tsukuda island, where the Sumida runs into the bay.1995, Junichi Saga, Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
    • These salvos tore apart San Franciscos upper works, and, as Admiral Callaghan and most of the bridge crew died in the inferno and explosions, a few shrapnel-ridden survivors fetched up' in unlikely portions of the ship, and it now came about that every senior commanding officer on both sides was...2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 17:08 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To overtake.
    • Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To vomit.
  4. (US, archaic, colloquial) To suddenly stop.

fetch up meaning in Malayalam

fetch up in Malayalam

turn up, end up, finish up
എത്തുക, പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുക, രൂപംകൊള്ളുക, ആകുക, ഉരുത്തിരിയുക, ആകൃതിപ്പെടുക

Forms of fetch up

third-person singular presentfetches up
present participlefetching up
past participlefetched up
pastfetched up

Questions about fetch up

What does fetch up mean?
Fetch up means to arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly.
What is fetch up in Malayalam?
Fetch up in Malayalam is എത്തുക, പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുക, രൂപംകൊള്ളുക. See Fetch up meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is fetch up?
Fetch up is a verb.
What is the past tense of fetch up?
The past tense of fetch up is fetched up.

Words near fetch up in the dictionary

  1. fetch candles
  2. fetch in
  3. fetch off
  4. fetch quest
  5. fetch quests
  6. fetch up
  7. fetch way
  8. fetch-and-carries
  9. fetch-and-carry
  10. fetchable
  11. fetched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fetch up (page history and authors); fetch up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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