fetch

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /fɛtʃ/

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Verb

Plain form fetch

Third-person singular fetches

Past tense fetched

Past participle fetched

Present participle fetching

1. (transitive) If you fetch something, or someone, you go away to get it and return with it.

   John fetched me a towel from the bathroom.

   Can you fetch your mother to the phone, please?

2. (transitive) If something fetches a price then it is sold for that amount of money.

   That old painting fetched more than I expected at the auction.