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fetching about

fetching about is the present participle and gerund of fetch about.

Meaning of fetch about

Verb

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

  1. (US) To come onto a new tack.

Questions about fetching about

What is fetching about the present participle and gerund of?
Fetching about is the present participle and gerund of fetch about.

Words near fetching about in the dictionary

  1. fetchest
  2. fetcheth
  3. fetchin'
  4. fetching
  5. fetching a compass
  6. fetching about
  7. fetching and carrying
  8. fetching away
  9. fetching in
  10. fetching off
  11. fetching up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fetching about (page history and authors); fetch about (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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