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fetching up

fetching up is the present participle and gerund 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 fetching up

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

Words near fetching up in the dictionary

  1. fetching about
  2. fetching and carrying
  3. fetching away
  4. fetching in
  5. fetching off
  6. fetching up
  7. fetching way
  8. fetchingly
  9. fetchingness
  10. fetchings
  11. Fetchko

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