{
    "term": "fetch",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "fetch",
            "heSheIt": "fetches"
        },
        "pastSimple": "fetched",
        "pastParticiple": "fetched",
        "ingForm": "fetching"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to go to where somebody/something is and bring them/it back",
            "sensetop": "fetch somebody/somethingfetch somebody something",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to fetch help/a doctor",
                    "contextForm": "fetch somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The inhabitants have to walk a mile to fetch water."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's gone to fetch the kids from school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Could you fetch me my bag?",
                    "contextForm": "fetch somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Could you fetch my bag for me?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He fetched a couple of towels from the bathroom."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He ran to fetch help."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be sold for a particular price",
            "sensetop": "fetch something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The painting is expected to fetch $10 000 at auction."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "sell for"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to do a lot of little jobs for somebody as if you were their servant",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Most of her day was spent fetching and carrying for her family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She expected him to do all the fetching and carrying."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fetʃ/",
                "audio": "fe/fetch/fetch__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfetʃɪz/",
                "audio": "fe/fetch/fetches__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fetʃt/",
                "audio": "fe/fetch/fetched__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfetʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fe/fetch/fetching__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fetʃ/",
                "audio": "fe/fetch/fetch__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfetʃɪz/",
                "audio": "fe/fetch/fetches__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fetʃt/",
                "audio": "fe/fetch/fetched__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfetʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fe/fetch/fetching__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English fecc(e)an, variant of fetian, probably related to fatian ‘grasp’, of Germanic origin and related to German fassen."
}