"chase down" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chases down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chasing down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chased down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chased down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "chase down (third-person singular simple present chases down, present participle chasing down, simple past and past participle chased down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:",
          "text": "With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to pursue and apprehend someone or something."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "pursue",
          "pursue"
        ],
        [
          "apprehend",
          "apprehend"
        ]
      ]
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to investigate the cause of something"
      ],
      "id": "en-chase_down-en-verb-enBvGjpP",
      "links": [
        [
          "investigate",
          "investigate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) to investigate the cause of something"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chase down"
}

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  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chases down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chasing down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chased down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chased down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "chase down (third-person singular simple present chases down, present participle chasing down, simple past and past participle chased down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:",
          "text": "With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to pursue and apprehend someone or something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pursue",
          "pursue"
        ],
        [
          "apprehend",
          "apprehend"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to investigate the cause of something"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "investigate",
          "investigate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) to investigate the cause of something"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chase down"
}