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fetches up

fetches up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fetch up.

Meaning of fetch up

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
  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.

Questions about fetches up

What is fetches up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fetches up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fetch up.

Words near fetches up in the dictionary

  1. fetches about
  2. fetches and carries
  3. fetches away
  4. fetches in
  5. fetches off
  6. fetches up
  7. fetches way
  8. fetchest
  9. fetcheth
  10. fetchin'
  11. fetching

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