fetch away
English
Verb
fetch
away
(
intransitive
,
now
rare
)
To
move
off,
come loose
; to
go
off suddenly away (from) a given position.
1957
,
Lawrence Durrell,
Justine
:
Some miles before the Arab fort the road
fetches away
inland from the coast and to reach the oasis one must swerve aside off the tarmac [...].
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