chase

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chase
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Meanings
verb
  • pursue in order to catch or catch up with.
    E.g. police chased the stolen car through the city
  • drive or cause to go in a specified direction.
    E.g. she chased him out of the house
  • try to obtain (something owed or required).
    E.g. the company employs people to chase up debts
noun
  • an act of pursuing someone or something.
    E.g. they captured the youths after a brief chase
verb
  • engrave (metal, or a design on metal).
    E.g. they didn't have foundries to cast or chase metal
noun
  • (in letterpress printing) a metal frame for holding the composed type and blocks being printed at one time.
noun
  • the part of a gun enclosing the bore.
  • a groove or furrow cut in the face of a wall or other surface to receive a pipe or wire.

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