Word.ws English Dictionary

fetching away

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

Meaning of fetch away

Verb

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

  1. (dated, intransitive) To move off, come loose; to go off suddenly away (from) a given position.
    • Some miles before the Arab fort the road fetches away inland from the coast and to reach the oasis one must swerve aside off the tarmac [...].1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine

Questions about fetching away

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

Words near fetching away in the dictionary

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

Source and license

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

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fetching away.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fetching_away. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.