chasing
present participle of
chase
Meaning of chasing in English
chase
verb
uk
/tʃeɪs/ us
/tʃeɪs/chase verb (FOLLOW)
B2 [ I or T ]
- chaseHe felt like a dog chasing its tail.
- give chaseHe saw two men breaking into a car and gave chase on foot when they fled.
- pursueHe was pursued down the corridor by a camera crew.
- run afterLeaping to his feet, he ran after the bus.
- followFollow me - this way!
- tag alongDo you mind if my little brother tags along?
- chaseHe was running and the dog was chasing him.
- pursueThe robber was pursued by several members of the public.
- tailThe car was tailed by police for several hours.
- shadowThe police think the robbers shadowed their victims for days before the crime.
chase verb (TRY TO GET)
She's always chasing (after) men.
- ache for something
- acquisitive
- ambitious
- ambitiously
- angle for something
- desperate
- expense
- have your eye on something idiom
- hunger
- hunger after/for something
- hungrily
- impulse
- pine
- seeker
- set your heart on something/doing something idiom
- set your sights on something idiom
- shook
- shopping list
- sight
- someone's heart's desire idiom
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chase verb (GET RID OF)
Phrasal verb
Examples of chasing
chasing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
These observations provided also an estimate of the time individuals spent perching, foraging and chasing intruders.
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Showing the pushout property of the bottom square in isolation is then a matter of straightforward diagram chasing.
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Chasing - the subject pursued the opponent as it moved away.
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The pointer chasing could be abstracted over different monads, and reused with multiple data structures representing different kinds of terms.
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These typically concern learners' noticing the wrong things, generating false hypotheses, and chasing hares.
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Meanwhile, this has informed and inspired me to deliver the revised version of the book which the publishers have been chasing for years.
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After each bout they perched on a branch and remained silent, vocalizing, or chasing intruders.
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And this is a clear advantage since it would have been much more difficult to perform such proofs with categorical diagram chasing.
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The following proposition is a rather tedious exercise in diagram chasing.
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Chasing the elusive butterfly : gossip and the pursuit of reputation.
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He glanced at his soaking clothes; the cloth-patch was gone (it was probably chasing the fish down stream).
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I feel we spend a lot of time chasing the money.
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It's in chasing that moment that we begin to perceive the thing as a whole, its value, and ourselves in relation to it.
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Although most laughter results from physical contact such as tickling, it also occurs during chasing play.
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Keeping dogs fit and healthy was another way to prepare them for the rigors of hunting and chasing game.
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