(ditransitive, transitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
(transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
(intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
(literary, rare, transitive) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
(transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
(obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
(transitive) To reduce; to throw.
(archaic, transitive) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
(transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

(also, figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
(also, figuratively, specifically) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
(uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.

Minced oath for fuck.

The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

fetches

Meaning

fetch

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɛt͡ʃɪz/

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