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| fetch up |
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1. intransitive verb arrive: to arrive or come to a halt somewhere
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 After a week on the road, we fetched up at a small coastal town.
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2. intransitive verb nautical halt suddenly: to come to a sudden halt
The boat fetched up on a sandbar.
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3. transitive verb cause somebody or something to stop: to make somebody or something come to a stop
His abrupt tone fetched me up short.
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