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# chase

«chase» in Mova's school dictionary: **to run after someone or something to catch it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (chase, chases, chased, chasing); noun (a chase, chases)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To chase is to run after someone or something to catch it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#m1)

2) To chase away is to make someone go away by running after them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#m2)

3) A chase is the act of running after someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#m3)

4) To chase a dream is to try hard to get it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

one moves after another: speeds, distances, the gap getting smaller; in play: chase and tag games at break time; in science: predators chase prey (a cheetah chases a gazelle); in stories: a police chase, a cat-and-mouse chase; phrases: «chase after», «chase away», «cut to the chase» (get to the main point)

### examples

- A dog chases a cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x1)
- The fox chases 3 rabbits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x2)
- The cat runs 5 m a second and the dog chases at 7. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x3)
- How long until he catches up? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x4)
- We played chase in the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x5)
- The farmer chased the crows away from the corn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x6)
- A cheetah can chase its prey at great speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x7)
- The film ends with a long car chase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x8)
- She is chasing her dream of becoming a dancer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x9)
- There was his sister chasing him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/#x10)

### note

Catching up: the gap shrinks by the difference of speeds each second (7 − 5 = 2 m a second). Time to catch up = gap ÷ difference of speeds. Past: chased. Safety: never chase a ball into the road.

### In the corpora

- [City animals are wild animals, so watch them, but do not feed, chase or touch them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/4/)
- [Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt because the urge to chase and pounce is built in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/16/)
- [A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, digging, climbing, sniffing and chasing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/0/)
- [Donkeys, llamas and sheepdogs are used to guard flocks, and a guard donkey will chase away foxes and stray dogs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/15/)
- [Pigeons are smarter than they look: they can tell people's faces apart and remember who chased them and who fed them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chase» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chase/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.