fetched; fetching; fetches
1
2
3
a
: to give (a blow) by striking : deal
fetch him a clip on the chin
b
chiefly dialectal
: bring about, accomplish
4
a
: to reach by sailing especially against the wind or tide
fetch the harbor before the storm breaks
b
: to arrive at : reach
fetched home after a long ride
1
: to get and bring something
specifically
: to retrieve killed game
2
: to take a roundabout way : circle
3
a
: to hold a course on a body of water
fetch to windward
b
: veer
fetcher
noun
Examples of fetch in a Sentence
Verb
If you throw the ball the dog will fetch it.
Hunting dogs are trained to fetch.
This table should fetch quite a bit at auction.
The house fetched more than we expected.
Noun (1)
his latest fetch to win back his girlfriend smacks of desperation
Noun (2)
with its standard assortment of chain stores and central food court, the new mall is pretty much the fetch of 1,000 other malls
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Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Back then, the seven-bedroom, 12-bathroom property fetched $42 million—a smidge less than its original listing price of $49.5 million.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2025
Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Too often, these virtual worlds are padded out simply to make the experience longer, inundated with enemy camps to take down and fruitless fetch quests that all feel copy-and-paste.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
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Verb
For example, the Jones trade fetched a 2026 first-round pick and a potential goalie of the future in Spencer Knight.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Back then, the seven-bedroom, 12-bathroom property fetched $42 million—a smidge less than its original listing price of $49.5 million.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
Animal lovers have been left in stitches by a dog whose joy for playing fetch comes out in an extraordinary way.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Too often, these virtual worlds are padded out simply to make the experience longer, inundated with enemy camps to take down and fruitless fetch quests that all feel copy-and-paste.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Fetch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetch. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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