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Chase

/CHās/

verb
- 1. pursue in order to catch or catch up with: "police chased the stolen car through the city" Similar pursuerun afterfollowhunttracktrailgive chase tobe hot on someone's heelsinformal:tailOpposite run away from
- ▪ seek to attain: "seventy candidates chasing a single job"
- ▪ seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way: "playing football by day and chasing women by night" Similar courtwoopursuerun afterseek the company ofmake advances tomake up toflirt withromanceinformal:chat upmake (sheep's) eyes atgive the come-on tocome on tobe all overtrack withtrack square withdated:set one's cap atpay addresses topay suit topay court toseek the hand ofmake love toarchaic:spark
- 2. drive or cause to go in a specified direction: "she chased him out of the house" Similar drive awaydrive offdrive output to flightsend awayscare offscatterinformal:send packing
- ▪ try to make contact with (someone) in order to get something owed or required: "chasing customers who had not paid their bills"
- ▪ make further investigation of an unresolved matter: "investigators got a warrant, but they didn't have time to chase down the case"
noun
- 1. an act of pursuing someone or something: "they captured the youths after a brief chase"
- ▪ short for steeplechase
- ▪ hunting as a sport: "she was an ardent follower of the chase"
- ▪ an area of unenclosed land formerly reserved for hunting: "Cannock Chase"
- ▪ a hunted animal.
Word Origin Middle English: from Old French chacier (verb), chace (noun), based on Latin captare ‘continue to take’, from capere ‘take’.
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