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Chase

noun

1.

The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture. Synonyms: following, pursual, pursuit.

2.

United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873). Synonyms: Salmon P. Chase, Salmon Portland Chase.

3.

A rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time.

verb

(past & past part. chased; pres. part. chasing)

1.

Go after with the intent to catch. Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail. "The dog chased the rabbit"

2.

Pursue someone sexually or romantically. Synonym: chase after.

3.

Cut a groove into.

4.

Cut a furrow into a columns. Synonyms: chamfer, furrow.

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"Chase" Quotes from Famous Books

... his feet. His face was grave. There was a singular gleam in his eyes, which was not a gleam of mere excitement such as the chase brings into ...

— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman

... is though that she be astoned,* *astonished To see so great a guest come in that place, She never was to no such guestes woned;* *accustomed, wont For which she looked with full pale face. But shortly forth this matter for to chase,* *push on, pursue These are the wordes that the marquis said To this benigne, ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

... have ever seen before a night so full of lights. The great change of sea life since my time was brought home to me. I had been conscious all day of an interminable procession of steamers. They went on and on as if in chase of each other, the Baltic trade, the trade of Scandinavia, of Denmark, of Germany, pitching heavily into a head sea and bound for the gateway of Dover Straits. Singly, and in small companies of two and three, they emerged from the ...

— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad

... predominant thought of self-interest, and somewhat of that admiration for success which often seems like magnanimity in grasping minds, and something too of haughty exultation, that he stood a King's brother in the halls of his exile, came to chase away the more hostile and menacing feelings. Then Judith approached with joy on her brow, ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... long contention they will come to blood, and the savage party will chase out the other with great injury. Thereafter within three suns it behoves this to fall, and the other to surmount through the force of one who even now is tacking. It will hold high its front long time, keeping the other under heavy burdens, however it may lament and be shamed thereat. Two ...

— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri

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