chaseverb
uk/tʃeɪs/us/tʃeɪs/chase verb (FOLLOW)
B2 [ I or T ] to hurry after someone or something in order to catch him, her, or it:
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- It was plucky of you to chase after the burglar.
- There are too many people chasing too few jobs.
- The thieves easily outran the policewoman who was chasing them.
- He drove through the red lights in an attempt to shake off the police car that was chasing him.
- Dad chased him into the garden.
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Pursuing
- be hot on sb's track/trail idiom
- be on sb's tail idiom
- bear
- bear down on sb/sth
- bring
- bring up the rear idiom
- convoy
- heel
- hot
- in hot pursuit idiom
- on the scent idiom
- pursue
- pursuer
- pursuit
- run
- scent
- stalk
- tag
- tailgate
- track
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chase verb (MOVE FAST)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to hurry or run in various directions:
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- glide
- gun
- leg
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- scud
- shoot
- stampede
- trot
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chase verb (TRY TO GET)
C2 [ T ] to try to get something that is difficult to get or achieve:
[ I or T ] to try very hard to persuade someone to have a relationship with you:
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Wanting things
- ache for sth
- acquisitive
- ambitious
- angle
- angle for sth
- aspirant
- burn
- fancy
- finger
- hanker after/for sth
- have your eye on sth idiom
- hunger
- hunger after/for sth
- hungry
- shook
- sight
- sth is calling you idiom
- straw
- tempt
- think big idiom
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chase verb (GET RID OF)
B2 [ T + adv/prep ] to run after a person or an animal in a threatening way in order to make him, her, or it leave:
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- haemodialysis
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
chasenoun [ C ]
uk/tʃeɪs/us/tʃeɪs/the act of going after someone or something very quickly in order to catch him, her, or it:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Pursuing
- be hot on sb's track/trail idiom
- be on sb's tail idiom
- bear
- bear down on sb/sth
- bring
- bring up the rear idiom
- convoy
- heel
- hot
- in hot pursuit idiom
- on the scent idiom
- pursue
- pursuer
- pursuit
- run
- scent
- stalk
- tag
- tailgate
- track
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