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    fetch
    [fɛtʃ]
    verb
    fetch (verb) · fetches (third person present) · fetched (past tense) · fetched (past participle) · fetching (present participle)
    1. go for and then bring back (someone or something) for someone:
      "he ran to fetch help" · "she fetched me a cup of tea"
      • archaic
        bring forth (blood or tears):
        "kind offers fetched tears from me"
      • archaic
        take a (breath); heave (a sigh).
    2. achieve (a particular price) when sold:
      "the land could fetch over a million pounds"
    3. informal
      inflict (a blow or slap) on (someone):
      "that brute Cullam fetched him a wallop"
    4. informal
      dated
      cause great interest or delight in (someone):
      "that air of his always fetches women"
    noun
    fetch (noun) · fetches (plural noun)
    1. the distance travelled by wind or waves across open water.
      • the distance a vessel must sail to reach open water.
    2. archaic
      a stratagem or trick.
    Origin
    Old English fecc(e)an, variant of fetian, probably related to fatian ‘grasp’, of Germanic origin and related to German fassen.
    fetch
    [fɛtʃ]
    noun
    fetch (noun) · fetches (plural noun)
    1. the apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death.
    Origin
    late 17th century: of unknown origin.
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    What does the word 'fetch' mean?
    seen from the viewpoint of the doer – she … Fetch means to go to another place to get something or someone and return with the thing or the person. We use it for people and things that are not here but that we need or are due to be here.

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    What is the difference between fetch and take?
    Fetch means to go to another place to get something or someone and return with the thing or the person. We use it for people and things that are not here but that we need or are due to be here. We can usually use get instead of fetch: … We don’t use take when something is seen from the receiver’s viewpoint: …

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    Where did fetch come from?
    Fetch dates back to before the year 1000, when it showed up in Old English as fecc (e)an. It’s related to the German fassen which means to grasp. Back then (and now, if you’re going with the typical definition), fetch typically meant to get or return with an object.

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    What does FET mean?
    In one view, an alteration of fetian, fatian ("to fetch, marry"; whence also English fet ), from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”). The two boys saw him and ran to fetch his shoes. I'll fetch some next time I am in town. You fetch souls instead of the death-dealers.

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