Definition of Fetch

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Definition of Fetch

Fetch

To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

To reduce; to throw.

To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.

To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.

The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

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Fetch Quotations

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Gary Oldman

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
William Throsby Bridges

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
Mary Roberts Rinehart

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Edward Coke

My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings.
Gerald B. H. Solomon

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
William Maxwell Aitken

Fetch Translations

fetch in Afrikaans is bring
fetch in Danish is hente, bringe
fetch in Dutch is brengen, bezorgen, aandragen
fetch in French is apporter, aveignez, amener, aveignent, apportons
fetch in German is Abruf {m}, abrufen, abrufen, hervorholen
fetch in Italian is portare, prendere
fetch in Latin is arcesso; accerso
fetch in Norwegian is innbringe, hente
fetch in Portuguese is busque
fetch in Spanish is sacar, llevar, traer, buscar, coger

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