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Chasing

Chase \Chase\ (ch[=a]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chased (ch[=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Chasing.] [OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See Catch.]

  1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

    We are those which chased you from the field.
    --Shak.

    Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place.
    --Cowper.

  2. To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.

    Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place.
    --Knolles.

  3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.

    Chasing each other merrily.
    --Tennyson.

Chasing

Chasing \Chas"ing\, n. The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.

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chasing

n. engraved or embossed decoration vb. (present participle of chase English)

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Chasing (song)

"Chasing" is a song written by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes and is the first single release from her fifth studio album Bones+Longing.

Chasing (film)

Chasing (; lit. "Catch Him to Survive") is a 2016 South Korean action- comedy film about a top CEO (played by Kim Seung-woo) who has his cellphone stolen by a fearless gang of male high-school students lead by the rebellious Han Won-tae (played by Hyuk of VIXX, in his film debut) and homicide detective (played by Kim Jung-tae) who loses his gun to the same gang of high-school students. Both the gun and the cellphone are very valuable to the CEO and detective and begins a fast-paced pursuit in order to retrieve their items back from the gang.

The film was directed by Oh In-chun (the director of Mourning Grave) and released in theaters on January 7, 2016.

Usage examples of "chasing".

Lord Confalume had had fashioned for himself, with those three immense many-faceted purple diniabas gleaming in its browband, and its finials of emeralds and rubies, and its inlaid chasings of seven different precious metals.

You have the sheriff chasing you again, or is some irate husband coming after your tail?

A dog ran out, barking angrily and biting at the tires, chasing the truck until satisfied it was leaving the neighborhood.

A large fan sat on the floor, whirring noisily and chasing the air around the rows of canned goods, food supplies, and varying assortment of stock.

She was probably hoping to defend herself from the men who are chasing her!

The ones who closed the doors in the palace and are chasing that army are perhaps five thousand.

She flinched when her dress pulled against the bruise on her shoulder, the bruise she got when a man chasing them had knocked her down.

Naked children ran and played among the flimsy shelters, splashing in muddy puddles and chasing each other in games of catch-the-fox.

Had I done that, then we would have had the entire army, and tens of thousands of people, chasing after us.

The crowd we get now mostly came here chasing the high dollar Dy-Corp pays at the strip mine.

Sam read the familiar phone number and felt the tears drift down her face as she pictured their father drunk, chasing Polly down the stairs.

This is more or less what I wrote, I think, after Nixon resigned and I was faced with the obligation to fill enough space to justify all those expenses I ran up while chasing Nixon around the country and watching him sink deeper and deeper in the quicksand of his own excrement.

They kept drifting west, chasing jobs, rumors, homestead grabs or the luck of some front-running kin.

Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps the last man?

His mother, Raphaela, was great with child once more and chasing after the boy had been one of the many tasks bestowed on the Grayson captive.