Synonyms for fetch
fɛtʃfetch

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. fetchverb

   the action of fetching

2. bring, get, convey, fetchverb

   go or come after and bring or take back

   "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat"

   Synonyms:
   take, bring in, mystify, make, institute, experience, develop, carry, draw, have, lend, become, sustain, transmit, receive, scram, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, go, fix, pay back, land, get under one's skin, stick, suffer, beat, wreak, set about, get down, add, incur, channel, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, stupefy, start, contribute, arrest, bring, bewilder, mother, induce, buzz off, catch, let, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, impart, get, generate, find, baffle, produce, vex, communicate, start out, pose, capture, aim, bestow, perplex, gravel, begin, father, play, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, pay off, bugger off, express, cause, make for, work, nonplus, conduct, commence

3. fetch, bring in, bringverb

   be sold for a certain price

   "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"

   Synonyms:
   make for, add, bestow, gain, play, convey, institute, clear, wreak, lend, work, take in, pull in, land, get, contribute, introduce, take, realise, realize, bring, bring in, impart, make, earn

4. fetchverb

   take away or remove

   "The devil will fetch you!"

   Synonyms:
   convey, bring in, bring, get

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. fetchverb

   Synonyms:
   bring (when one goes for the purpose of bringing), go and bring

2. fetchverb

   Synonyms:
   perform, make, effect

3. fetchverb

   Synonyms:
   sell for

4. fetchverb

   Synonyms:
   (Naut.) reach, attain, arrive at, come to, get to

5. fetchnoun

   Synonyms:
   trick, artifice, ruse, stratagem, dodge, sharp practice

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "fetch":

   get, recovery, retrieve

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How to use fetch in a sentence?

1. New York:

   The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter.

2. Tom Fitton:

   I think many Americans are going to be surprised to learn that illegal aliens here in the United States are getting the Obama administration to go and get their children and fetch them, and all at our expense.

3. Mary Mwikali Kiminza:

   My feet are now rested without endless trips to (fetch water), and my children can now concentrate in school because I no longer ask them to follow me to the river.

4. Anania Ncube:

   One day I attended a livestock auction where a cross-breed steer was sold for more money than a big indigenous bull which I expected to fetch more. That won me over.

5. Thomas Tusser:

   For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.