fetch up

verb

fetched up; fetching up; fetches up

transitive verb

1

: to bring up or out : produce

2

: to make up (something, such as lost time)

3

: to bring to a stop

intransitive verb

: to reach a standstill, stopping place, or goal : end up

may have fetched up running a village store

—Geoffrey Household

Synonyms

• arrest
• bring up
• catch
• check
• draw up
• halt
• hold up
• pull up
• stall
• stay
• still
• stop

Examples of fetch up in a Sentence

the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church

Recent Examples on the Web

There are two bottles of single barrel bourbon going up for auction, each estimated to fetch up to $10,000. —Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2024

It was estimated to fetch up to $12,000 but sold at an auction in for $52,000. —Ada Tseng, WWD, 24 Oct. 2024

Far from it, say the growers, even if award-winning pumpkins can fetch up to $2 a pound in post-contest sales, typically to hotels or state and county fairs that may want to display them as fall attractions. —Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024

In 1979’s Love at First Bite, George Hamilton, fetched up in full Dracula regalia, wanders the streets of nighttime Manhattan to the complete and utter disregard of the locals. —Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Kids Definition

fetch up

verb

: to come to or bring to a stop