FETCH UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fetch up mean? 

• FETCH UP (verb)
  The verb FETCH UP has 1 sense:

1. finally be or do something

  Familiarity information: FETCH UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FETCH UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Finally be or do something

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

end up; fetch up; finish; finish up; land up; wind up

Context example:

he wound up being unemployed and living at home again

Hypernyms (to "fetch up" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s VERB-ing

 Context examples 

Malone and I will go down again, therefore, and we will fetch up the four rifles, together with Gomez and the other.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was now nearly the hour of high tide, but the waves were so great that in their troughs the shallows of the shore were almost visible, and the schooner, with all sails set, was rushing with such speed that, in the words of one old salt, she must fetch up somewhere, if it was only in hell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)