"fetch up" meaning in English

See fetch up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: fetches up [present, singular, third-person], fetching up [participle, present], fetched up [participle, past], fetched up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} fetch up (third-person singular simple present fetches up, present participle fetching up, simple past and past participle fetched up)
  1. (intransitive) To arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-fetch_up-en-verb-ttRuJTeP
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To overtake. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-fetch_up-en-verb-O6aN64gr
  3. (intransitive and transitive) To vomit. Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-fetch_up-en-verb-ndNoz1AC
  4. (colloquial, US, archaic) To suddenly stop. Tags: US, archaic, colloquial
    Sense id: en-fetch_up-en-verb-p4x7axFD Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 20 10 56 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 13 15 10 62 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 30 10 46 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 12 9 67

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1995, Junichi Saga, Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld:",
          "text": "We panicked again for a moment, but the wind switched direction without warning, and we slowly drifted away till we fetched up at Tsukuda island, where the Sumida runs into the bay.",
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          "ref": "2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 17:08 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17:",
          "text": "These salvos tore apart San Franciscos upper works, and, as Admiral Callaghan and most of the bridge crew died in the inferno and explosions, a few shrapnel-ridden survivors fetched up' in unlikely portions of the ship, and it now came about that every senior commanding officer on both sides was now dead or out of action within the opening acts of the battle.",
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        "(intransitive) To arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly."
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          "ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:",
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To overtake."
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