Definitions for chasing

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chasing chas·ing

Spelling: [chey-sing]

IPA: /ˈtʃeɪ sɪŋ/

Chasing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in chasing (acghins).

Definitions for chasing

noun

1. a design chased on metal.
2. an object decorated by chasing.
3. the act of chasing; pursuit:
4. an object of pursuit; something chased.
5. Chiefly British. a private game preserve; a tract of privately owned land reserved for, and sometimes stocked with, animals and birds to be hunted.
6. British. the right of keeping game or of hunting on the land of others.
7. a steeplechase.
8. the chase, the sport or occupation of hunting.

Idioms

1. cut to the chase, Informal. to get to the main point.

Verb phrases

1. give chase, to pursue:

verb (used with object)

1. to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.:
2. to pursue with intent to capture or kill, as game; hunt:
3. to follow or devote one's attention to with the hope of attracting, winning, gaining, etc.:
4. to drive or expel by force, threat, or harassment:
5. to ornament (metal) by engraving or embossing.
6. to cut (a screw thread), as with a chaser or machine tool.

verb (used without object)

1. to follow in pursuit:
2. to rush or hasten:

Origin of chasing

First recorded in 1825-35; chase³ + -ing¹

Examples for chasing

"Anyhow, they're chasing the German aroplane off," Tubby declared.

For Sternberg, living in New York is not possible if you are chasing after some idea of the city.

He said he was chasing a good story, but kept the specifics close to his chest.

He had been chasing her for his answer, and she had escaped him through a gate.

The hounds could not run; one died from sunstroke while chasing a jack rabbit.

They went on and on, and there, on the borders of a forest, some hounds were chasing a fox.

You were really the first person to give him a juicy leading role, in chasing Amy.

The wages are low and the working conditions difficult, all in the service of chasing what for most will be an impossible dream.

But trying to impose such order by chasing away informal commerce and culture is myopic.

All day long his wife was screaming at them and chasing them with her broom.