Usually means: Pursue rapidly to catch, follow.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chase, chase: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chase, chase, chase, chase, the chase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chase, chase, chase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chase, the chase: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Chase, chase: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chase, chase: Wordnik
  7. chase, the chase: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chase: Wiktionary
  9. chase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chase: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chase, chase, the chase: Dictionary.com
  13. chase: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chase: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chase (Arrowverse), Chase (Chase album), Chase (House episode), Chase (Kumi Koda song), Chase (L'Arc-en-Ciel song), Chase (TV channel), Chase (TV series), Chase (algorithm), Chase (band), Chase (bank), Chase (comics), Chase (composition), Chase (disambiguation), Chase (dog), Chase (instrumental), Chase (land), Chase (lighting), Chase (name), Chase (novel), Chase (printing), Chase (song), Chase (video game), Chase, The Chase (American game show), The Chase (British game show), The Chase (Clive Cussler), The Chase (Desperate Housewives), The Chase (Doctor Who), The Chase (Garth Brooks album), The Chase (Illy album), The Chase (Manafest album), The Chase (Marit Larsen album), The Chase (U.S. game show), The Chase (UK game show), The Chase (Wolfstone album), The Chase (novel), The Chase, The Chase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chase: Rhymezone
  19. chase: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Chase, Chase: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. chase: Free Dictionary
  23. chase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Chase: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. chase: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. chase: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chase: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chase: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CHASE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. chase: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chase: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chase, chase, chase: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Chase: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. chase, the chase: Urban Dictionary

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chase: Dan's Poker
  2. Chase: Backgammon
  3. Chase, Chase: Gambling Glossary
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Chase: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Masonry dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CHASE: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  4. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  5. Chase: Construction Glossary
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  7. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
noun:  A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
noun:  (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
noun:  (British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
noun:  Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
noun:  (obsolete) A wild animal that is hunted.
noun:  (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
noun:  (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
noun:  (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
noun:  (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
noun:  (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
verb:  (transitive) To pursue.
verb:  (transitive) To follow at speed.
verb:  (transitive) To hunt.
verb:  (transitive) To seek to attain.
verb:  (transitive) To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
verb:  (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
verb:  (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
noun:  (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
noun:  A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
noun:  (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
noun:  The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
noun:  The cavity of a mold.
noun:  (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
verb:  (transitive) To groove; indent.
verb:  (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
verb:  (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
verb:  (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname from a Middle English nickname for a hunter.
noun:  A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A village and river in British Columbia, Canada.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Madison County, Alabama.
noun:  A census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana.
noun:  A city in Rice County, Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Franklin Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
noun:  A township in Lake County, Michigan.
noun:  A census-designated place in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A town and unincorporated community in Oconto County, Wisconsin.
noun:  Ellipsis of Chase County. [One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Cottonwood Falls. Named after Salmon P. Chase.]

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