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单词 fetching up
释义

fetch up

verb

fetched up; fetching up; fetches up

transitive verb

1
: to bring up or out : produce
2
: to make up (something, such as lost time)
3
: to bring to a stop

intransitive verb

: to reach a standstill, stopping place, or goal : end up
may have fetched up running a village store Geoffrey Household

Synonyms

  • arrest
  • bring up
  • catch
  • check
  • draw up
  • halt
  • hold up
  • pull up
  • stall
  • stay
  • still
  • stop
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Example Sentences

the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church
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Word History

First Known Use

1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

fetching up

verb

present participle of fetch up
as in stopping
to bring (something) to a standstill the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • stopping
  • halting
  • pulling up
  • stalling
  • drawing up
  • bringing up
  • catching
  • holding up
  • checking
  • blocking
  • arresting
  • staying
  • holding back
  • cutting off
  • stilling
  • hindering
  • turning back
  • suspending
  • holding
  • choking off
  • impeding
  • ending
  • obstructing
  • stemming
  • snagging
  • baffling
  • clogging
  • balking
  • detaining
  • blockading
  • damming
  • concluding
  • reining (in)
  • terminating
  • bottlenecking
  • suppressing
  • discontinuing
  • stunting
  • repressing
  • squashing
  • calling
  • squelching
  • stanching
  • staunching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • keeping (on)
  • keeping up
  • running on
  • continuing
  • following through (with)
  • carrying on
  • proceeding
  • persisting
  • moving
  • progressing
  • advancing
  • marching
  • faring
  • going along
  • pushing
  • wending
  • stirring
  • driving
  • actuating
  • propelling
  • spurring
  • goading
  • impelling
  • budging
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