fetch

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Synonyms: letch, retch, etch, fletch, fitch, vetch, futch, ketch, tetch, fetich, felch

Antonyms: letch, retch, etch, fletch, fitch, vetch, futch, ketch, tetch, fetich, felch

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Verb

1. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
   • You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
   • I'm thirsty. Can you fetch me a glass of water, please?
2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
   • If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000
3. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
   • to fetch headway or sternway
4. To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5. To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
6. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
7. To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
   • to fetch a man to
8. To reduce; to throw.
9. To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
   • to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap
10. To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

Noun

1. An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. An act of fetching data.
   • a fetch from a cache
2. An act of fetching data.
   • a fetch from a cache
3. The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
4. An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
5. The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
6. A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
   • They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.
7. A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.

Interjection

1. Minced oath for fuck.

Noun

1. The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

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