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

Sotheby’s will sell the volumes next month at an auction in London, where they’re expected to fetch up to $6 million. —Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025

Poaching networks operate with military-grade precision, fueled by a transnational black market where rhino horn can fetch up to $400,000 per kilogram, a price tag that makes gold look cheap. —Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025

Go deeper • ThyssenKrupp is weighing the sale of its materials trading unit, which could fetch up to €2b, per Bloomberg. —Lucinda Shen, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025

This lot is also expected to fetch up to $50,000. —Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Rhymes for fetch up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup

Kids Definition

fetch up

verb

: to come to or bring to a stop