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    chase
    [CHās]
    verb
    chase (verb) · chases (third person present) · chased (past tense) · chased (past participle) · chasing (present participle)
    1. pursue in order to catch or catch up with:
      "police chased the stolen car through the city" · "the dog chased after the stick"
      • 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"
    2. drive or cause to go in a specified direction:
      "she chased him out of the house"
    3. try to obtain (something owed or required):
      "the company employs people to chase up debts"
      • 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
    chase (noun) · chases (plural noun) · the chase (noun) · Chase (noun)
    1. an act of pursuing someone or something:
      "they captured the youths after a brief chase" · "a chase for limited supplies of hard currency" · "a car chase"
      • short for steeplechase
      • (the chase)
        hunting as a sport:
        "she was an ardent follower of the chase"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        an area of unenclosed land formerly reserved for hunting:
        "Cannock Chase"
      • archaic
        a hunted animal.
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French chacier (verb), chace (noun), based on Latin captare ‘continue to take’, from capere ‘take’.
    chase
    [CHās]
    verb
    chase (verb) · chases (third person present) · chased (past tense) · chased (past participle) · chasing (present participle) · chased (adjective)
    1. engrave (metal, or a design on metal):
      "they didn't have foundries to cast or chase metal" · "a unique goblet of ruby-colored glass with a chased silver rim"
    Origin
    late Middle English: apparently from earlier enchase, from Old French enchasser.
    chase
    [CHās]
    noun
    chase (noun) · chases (plural noun)
    1. (in letterpress printing) a metal frame for holding the composed type and blocks being printed at one time.
    Origin
    late 16th century: from French châsse, from Latin capsa ‘box’ (see case).
    chase
    [CHās]
    noun
    chase (noun) · chases (plural noun)
    1. the part of a gun enclosing the bore.
    2. a groove or furrow cut in the face of a wall or other surface to receive a pipe.
    Origin
    early 17th century: from French chas ‘enclosed space’, from Provençal cas, caus, from medieval Latin capsum ‘thorax or nave of a church’.
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    verb
    1. pursue in order to catch or catch up with:
      give chase to
      be hot on someone's heels
      Opposite:
      run away from
    2. drive or cause to go in a specified direction:
      drive off
      put to flight
      send away
    3. try to obtain (something owed or required):
    noun
    1. an act of pursuing someone or something:
      verb
      1. engrave (metal, or a design on metal):
       
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