Definitions for fetches

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fetches fetch

Spelling: [fech]

IPA: /fɛtʃ/

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

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in fetches (ceefhst).

Definitions for fetches

noun

1. the act of fetching.
2. the distance of fetching:
3. Oceanography. an area where ocean waves are being generated by the wind. the length of such an area.
4. the reach or stretch of a thing.
5. a trick; dodge.
6. wraith (def 1).

Idioms

1. fetch and carry, to perform menial tasks.

Verb phrases

1. fetch about, Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to come onto a new tack.
2. fetch up, Informal. to arrive or stop. Older Use. to raise (children); bring up: Nautical. (of a vessel) to come to a halt, as by lowering an anchor or running aground; bring up.

verb (used with object)

1. to go and bring back; return with; get:
2. to cause to come; bring:
3. to sell for or bring (a price, financial return, etc.):
4. Informal. to charm; captivate:
5. to take (a breath).
6. to utter (a sigh, groan, etc.).
7. to deal or deliver (a stroke, blow, etc.).
8. to perform or execute (a movement, step, leap, etc.).
9. Chiefly Nautical and British Dialect. to reach; arrive at:
10. Hunting. (of a dog) to retrieve (game).

verb (used without object)

1. to go and bring things.
2. Chiefly Nautical. to move or maneuver.
3. Hunting. to retrieve game (often used as a command to a dog).
4. to go by an indirect route; circle (often followed by around or about):

Origin of fetches

before 1000; Middle English fecchen, Old English fecc(e)an, variant of fetian to fetch (compare Middle English feten, fetten, British dialect fet; akin to Old English -fat in sīthfat journey,

Examples for fetches

The Killer ordered the deputies to fetch his tow-truck man, David Camp, campaign manager to James Albert Riley.

If he would come and fetch her and the little John, she would do whatever he asked of her.

Rhino horn is particularly lucrative—each kilogram can fetch up to $66,000.

I wish it had been possible for me to fetch her instead of him.

A frightened maid came out in haste and ran away to fetch some remedy.

She has a t-shirt that says “fetch,” the catchphrase from Mean Girls!

The same bodyguard, apparently bearing croissants, returns to fetch the never-married philandering leader the next morning.

Miss Avice won't be down, sir, and I'm to fetch her up a pot of coffee, sir.

But you rake a match to light the candle, and that little bit of a noise will fetch him.

That crowd's been working every fetch there is to get in with the top notchers, and they just couldn't.