fetch up

fetch up
verb
finally be or do something
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He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart

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he wound up being unemployed and living at home again

• Syn: ↑finish up, ↑land up, ↑end up, ↑wind up, ↑finish
• Derivationally related forms: ↑windup (for: ↑wind up)
• Hypernyms: ↑act, ↑move
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s VERB-ing

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END UP, finish up, turn up, appear, materialize, find itself; informal wind up, show up.
→ fetch

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transitive verb
1. : to bring up or out : produce

a tyrant fetched up by frightened capitalists — H.J.Muller

can fetch up anecdotes on almost any phase of straits historic lore — R.M.Dorson

2. : to make up (as leeway or lost time)
3. chiefly dialect : to bring up : raise, rear

she fetched up three boys

4. : to bring to a stop

he was fetched up short by a stop light

: to come to a standstill, stopping place, or result : end up : stop

fetched up suddenly against the wall

it was enough to make the voyage at all, and indeed he should have fetched up in Virginia — Alan Villiers

counted the wooden boxes … and fetched up with fourteen — Frederick Way

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fetch up
1. To recover
2. To come to a stop (informal)
3. To bring up, rear (eg children) (US)
4. To vomit (informal)
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Main Entry: ↑fetch

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ˌfetch ˈup [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they fetch up he/she/it fetches up present participle fetching up past tense fetched up past participle fetched up] british informal phrasal verb
to arrive at a place by accident or without intending to go there
Thesaurus: to arrive in a place, or to enter a placesynonym general words meaning to leave a placesynonym
Main entry: fetch

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informal arrive or come to rest somewhere, typically by accident or unintentionally

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fetch up [phrasal verb]
chiefly Brit informal : to reach or come to a place, condition, or situation that was not planned or expected

She traveled throughout Europe and eventually fetched up [=ended up] in Italy.

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Main Entry: ↑fetch

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ˌfetch ˈup derived
(informal, especially BrE) to arrive somewhere without planning to

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And then, a few years later, he somehow fetched up in Rome.

Main entry: ↑fetchderived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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