fetch up
verb
fetched up; fetching up; fetches up
1
: to bring up or out : produce
2
: to make up (something, such as lost time)
3
: to bring to a stop
: to reach a standstill, stopping place, or goal : end up
may have fetched up running a village store—
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the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church
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Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Some puppies can fetch up to $2,000.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
The rock is expected to fetch up to $4 million as the biggest chunk of Mars on Earth.
—July 10, CBS News, 10 July 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for fetch up
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“Fetch up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetch%20up. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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