fetch
fetch is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- transitive verb. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
- transitive verb. To reduce; to throw.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- transitive verb. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- intransitive verb. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
- noun. the action of fetching
- verb. go or come after and bring or take back
"Get me those books over there, please"
"Could you bring the wine?"
- verb. take away or remove
"The devil will fetch you!"
- verb. be sold for a certain price
"The painting brought $10,000"
"The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
Synonyms
Common word forms
fetched, fetcher, fetches, fetching
Words from these letters
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