单词 | fetch |
释义 | fetch (once / 215 pages) 1vn 2v To fetch something is to go and get it. "Go fetch!" you might shout after your dog while throwing a stick into the yard. Fetch comes from the Old English fatian meaning "grasp." When a dog fetches a bone, it grasps it in its mouth. You can ask your sister to fetch or grab your backpack off the table. If you sell something for a good price, you can fetch, or bring in, a decent amount of money. If you are sick of playing fetch, you might try to fetch a good price for your pooch. WORD FAMILYfetch: fetched, fetches, fetching+/fetching: fetchingest, fetchingly USAGE EXAMPLESOn the black market a dollar fetches about 485 kwanza. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Its loss-making PC and TV businesses would be poor candidates for sale, while its many cross-shareholdings are unlikely to fetch enough. Reuters(Dec 29, 2016) Critics of Brazil’s privatization wave, meanwhile, say state workers and the public are getting shortchanged, with many assets fetching pennies on the dollar. Wall Street Journal(Dec 24, 2016) 1 1v go or come after and bring or take back The dog fetched the hat Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper bring, convey, get bring, convey, take take something or somebody with oneself somewhere bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state retrieve run after, pick up, and bring to the master retrievego for and bring back deliverbring to a destination, make a delivery misdeliverdeliver to the wrong address process, serve, swear outdeliver a warrant or summons to someone discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down, unloadleave or unload consignsend to an address channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport send from one person or place to another 2v take away or remove The devil will fetch you! Hyper bring, convey, take take something or somebody with oneself somewhere 3n the action of fetching 2Hyper action something done (usually as opposed to something said) v be sold for a certain price The old print fetched a high price at the auction Syn bring, bring in |
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