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fetched

fetched is the simple past and past participle of fetch.

Meaning of fetch

Verb

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

  1. (ditransitive, transitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
    • You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
  2. (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
    • Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
  3. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
    • to fetch headway or sternway
  4. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  5. (literary, rare, transitive) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
    • The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I
  6. (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
    • They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.1879, William Barnes, A Witch

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Words formed from fetched

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Questions about fetched

What is fetched the simple past and past participle of?
Fetched is the simple past and past participle of fetch.

Words near fetched in the dictionary

  1. fetch up
  2. fetch way
  3. fetch-and-carries
  4. fetch-and-carry
  5. fetchable
  6. fetched
  7. fetched a compass
  8. fetched about
  9. fetched and carried
  10. fetched away
  11. fetched in

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