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. Groucho Marx:

   A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

2. 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.

3. Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.:

   Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes

4. Tim Henman:

   Fingers crossed they will all be good enough to make the final cut and appear at this year's Champions Tennis event, i'd love to play alongside them in December. The dogs' enthusiasm and desire to fetch would certainly make it even more of a fantastic spectacle and no doubt they'd get more attention than the players.

5. Welekazi Mkololo:

   We want water, housing and electricity. There have been no changes here, i have to fetch water from a stream, it's far from here.