fetch — to go and bring back someone or something
Part of speech: VERB
Definition: to go and bring back someone or something
Pronunciation (IPA): /fɛtʃ/
Example Sentences
- My dog can fetch my slippers, but he refuses to fetch my homework excuses.
- The vintage comic book fetched an unexpected fortune at the estate sale.
- I asked my teenager to fetch groceries, but they fetched attitude instead.
fetch
VERB[/fɛtʃ/]
to go and bring back someone or something
While the wooden stick landed far away in the tall grass, the energetic dog quickly ran to fetch it back to his owner's hand.
FE(fee) + TCH(catch) — hoping to catch(TCH) a massive fee(FE), the antique vase managed to fetch a million dollars at the auction.
After waking up with a massive, lazy stretch, the sleepy man asked his robot dog to fetch the morning newspaper.
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🎤Pronunciation
🌳Etymology
Origin
Fetch derives from Old English 'feccan', meaning 'to bring' or 'to fetch'. The modern sense became fixed through the common action of dogs retrieving thrown objects, which exemplified the core meaning of bringing something back to its starting point.
Breakdown
Old English 'feccan' (to bring, to fetch) developed into Middle English 'fecchen' and eventually modern English 'fetch', with the root 'fec-' carrying the sense of movement toward and retrieval of an object.
🎵Rhyme
🔗Collocations
📝Examples
“My dog can fetch my slippers, but he refuses to fetch my homework excuses.”
“The vintage comic book fetched an unexpected fortune at the estate sale.”
“I asked my teenager to fetch groceries, but they fetched attitude instead.”
“The software can fetch real-time data from multiple servers simultaneously.”
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