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Definition: Chased |
ChasedNoun1. A person who is being chased; "the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chased" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: ChasedSynonym: pursued (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Chased |
| English words defined with "chased": barefoot, barefooted ♦ Chasable, Ciselure ♦ Devil ♦ hare and hounds, heller, hellion ♦ pursued ♦ Running fight ♦ With all one's might and main. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chased": Glamorgan ♦ Hare, Heel, Heels ♦ Luddites ♦ Reynard the Fox ♦ Solomon's Ring ♦ Want. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | So full of hate that you have to fight everybody, because you've been whipped and chased by hounds (Glory; writing credit: Robert Gould Shaw; Lincoln Kirstein) Attention Rex Manning fans, to your left you will notice a shoplifter being chased by night manager Lucas (Empire Records; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen) I feel that a person should run only when he's being chased. (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel) They'll keep her and raise her as one of their own til, until she's of an age to Injun will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough (The Searchers; writing credit: Frank S. Nugent) Because no high school education is complete until you've chased your fellow students around the woods with toy guns (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) | |
Lyrics | I chased that rabbit up her bodi tree (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith) 'Cause when I chased my fears away (I Made It Through The Rain; performing artist: Barry Manilow) Next day I chased her around the playground (Check Yes Or No; performing artist: George Strait) Chased darkness out of view (I wanna love you forever; performing artist: Jessica Simpson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Chased Bride (1923) Chicken Chased and Henpecked (1917) Chased Into Love (1917) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The great American What is it? chased by Copper-heads. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cartoon showing President Grover Cleveland, carrying book "What I know about women's clubs," being chased with an umbrella by Susan B. Anthony, as Uncle Sam laughs in background] / Barth. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Center horse gets chased by mad bull. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two children enjoying the commotion caused at meal time when a dog has chased a cat onto the back of their father] / A. Willard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Another damselfly" by Martin Kessel Commentary: "Ricoh RDC7 macro shot... just chased the damselfly until it gave up!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Giles | All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A few yellow leaves, relics of the last autumn, chased one another joyously, and seemed to be playing the (r)gamin |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And the children broke from restraint, dashed on the floor, chased one another madly, ran, slid, stole caps, and pulled hair |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | Police reportedly chased and beat fleeing protesters with batons and arrested several demonstrators. (references) |
Belarus | In May a Zubr "street theater" performance, entitled "Ultimate Diagnosis," led directly to the issuance of the May decree No. 11. The performance, a series of ironic skits, featured costumed members of Zubr wearing papier-mâché masks of Lukashenka being chased by other Zubrs. (references) | |
Economic History | Rwanda | Belgian troops from Zaire chased the small number of Germans out of Rwanda in 1915 and took control of the country. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | The other reportedly drowned after he was chased into a river by ZANU-PF supporters. (references) |
Bangladesh | As the police chased the BNP demonstrators, the Awami League activists ransacked the local BNP office. (references) | |
Belize | In February 2000, an off-duty police officer armed with a machete chased Kelvin "Brambles" Barrow into the sea, where Barrow died. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | In May there was a report that ZANU-PF supporters chased teachers and civil servants from their jobs in Matabeleland North because of their suspected support of the MDC. No further action was reported on pending ILO cases during the year. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Chased" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 49.06% of the time. "Chased" is used about 533 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 49.06% | 262 | 18,239 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 47.94% | 256 | 18,500 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.43% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.37% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 533 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "chased": be chased ♦ chased silver. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "chased": flat-chased, metal-chased, rune-chased, silver-chased. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chased | 10 |
by chased dinosaur | 8 |
being chased dream | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "chased"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjurmohem (be chased, be spied). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | подгонен (driven). (various references) | |
Chinese | 追逐 (Chase, Chasing, hound, Hounded, Hounding). (various references) | |
French | chassai, chassées, chassée, chassé, chassa. (various references) | |
German | ziselierte, verfolgte (haunted, persecuted, pursued, quarry, victim of persecution), jagte (coursed, hawked, hunted). (various references) | |
Greek | σκαλιστό ασήμι (chased silver). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מודח (deposed, driven out, exiled). (various references) | |
Korean | 쫓는. (various references) | |
Manx | shooghit, shelgit (hunted), grainnit (carved, engraved, graven, inlaid), clohit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asedchay.(various references) | |
Spanish | persiguio/. (various references) | |
Swedish | driven (clever, skilful, slick). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 14, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epepesen ep' autouV thn nukta autoV kai oi paideV autou kai epataxen autouV kai ediwxen autouV ewV cwba h estin en aristera damaskou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et divisis sociis inruit super eos nocte percussitque eos et persecutus est usque Hoba quae est ad levam Damasci |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Todælde ða hys geferan færlice on þære nihte, ond him on beræsde ond on eornost hi sloh ond afligde ða lafe, oð ðæt hi comon to Fenicen[, oð Hoba, þæt ys Damasce benorðan.] |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And, his felows dyuydid, he felle vpon hem in the nyyt, and he smoot hem, and he pursuede hem vnto Saba, and Phenysem, the which is at the left side of Damask. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And sette hymselfe ad his seruantes in aray and fell vpon them by nyght and smote them and chased them awaye vnto Hoba: which lyeth on the lefte hande of Damascos |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he divided himself against them, he and his servants by night, and smote them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 14, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug sila gibahinbahin niya sa kagabhion, siya ug ang iyang mga ulipon nga lalake, ug ilang gipamatay sila, ug giapas sila hangtud sa Hobah nga anaa sa dapit sa wala sa Damasco. |
| Croatian | Podijeli svoje momke u dvije èete, napadne noæu te one potuèe. Progonio ih je do Hobe, sjeverno od Damaska. |
| Danish | der faldt han og hans Trælle over dem om Natten, slog dem på Flugt og forfulgte dem op til Hoba norden for Damaskus. |
| Dutch | En hij verdeelde zich tegen hen des nachts, hij en zijn knechten, en sloeg ze; en hij jaagde hen na tot Hoba toe, hetwelk is ter linkerhand van Damaskus. |
| Finnish | Ja hän jakoi väkensä ja hyökkäsi palvelijoineen yöllä vihollisten kimppuun ja voitti heidät ja ajoi heitä takaa aina Hoobaan saakka, joka on Damaskosta pohjoiseen. |
| French | Il divisa sa troupe, pour les attaquer de nuit, lui et ses serviteurs; il les battit, et les poursuivit jusqu`à Choba, qui est à la gauche de Damas. |
| German | und teilte sich, fiel des Nachts über sie mit seinen Knechten und schlug sie und jagte sie bis gen Hoba, das zur Linken der Stadt Damaskus liegt, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di situ Abram membagi orang-orangnya atas beberapa kelompok, lalu menyerang musuh pada waktu malam dan mengalahkan mereka. Ia mengejar mereka sampai ke Hoba di sebelah utara kota Damsyik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dibaginyalah orang-orangnya itu pada malam, ia serta dengan segala hambanya, lalu dialahkannya musuh itu, diusirnya sampai ke Hoba, yaitu yang di sebelah kiri negeri Damsyik. |
| Maori | Na wahia ana ratou ko ana tangata kia rua nga matua, hei whakaeke mo ratou i te po, a patua ana ratou e ia, whaia ana, a tae noa ki Hopaha, ki te taha ki maui o Ramahiku. |
| Norwegian | Der delte han sine folk og overfalt dem om natten og slo dem; og han forfulgte dem like til Hoba, som ligger i nord for Damaskus. |
| Portuguese | Dividiu-se contra eles de noite, ele e os seus servos, e os feriu, perseguindo-os até Hobá, que fica à esquerda de Damasco. |
| Rumanian | Wi -a kmpqryit oamenii kn mai multe cete, s`a aruncat asupra lor noaptea, i -a bqtut, wi i -a urmqrit pknq la Hoba, care este la stknga Damascului. |
| Swedish | Och han delade sitt folk och överföll dem så om natten med sina tjänare och slog dem, och förföljde dem sedan ända till Hoba, norr om Damaskus, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "chased": enchased, prepurchased, purchased, repurchased. (additional references) | |
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"Chased" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chaed, chasade, chasel, Chasen, chasey, chassel, chasted, chated, chaze, chazed, Chazel, Chazov, chized, cuased, ichasel, Shazad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chased" (pronounced khā"st) |
| 4 | kh ā" s t | chaste. |
| 3 | -ā" s t | aced, based, braced, debased, defaced, disgraced, displaced, distaste, embraced, encased, erased, faced, foretaste, graced, haste, interlaced, laced, misplaced, paced, paste, placed, raced, replaced, retraced, spaced, taste, traced, unplaced, waist, waste. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cashed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-s" | |
-1 letter: ached, aches, ashed, cades, cased, chads, chase, daces, deash, hades, heads, sadhe, shade. | |
-2 letters: aced, aces, ache, cade, cads, case, cash, chad, dace, dahs, dash, each, edhs, hade, haed, haes, head, sade, scad, shad, shea, shed. | |
-3 letters: ace, ads, ash, cad, dah, edh, eds, had, hae, has, hes, sac, sad, sae, sea, sec. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-s" | |
+1 letter: chasmed, chassed, clashed, coheads, crashed, echards, scathed. | |
+2 letters: caboshed, catheads, cathodes, chadless, chamades, charades, cheddars, chresard, coalshed, despatch, detaches, echidnas, encashed, enchased, hardcase, rachides, sacheted, scarphed, searched, shackled, snatched, stanched, starched, uncashed. | |
+3 letters: acidheads, archaised, archdukes, beachside, bedchairs, berdaches, cadetship, cashiered, cathedras, chamoised, chandlers, chastened, chastised, chlamydes, chordates, chresards, coalsheds, cokeheads, crosshead, deathcups, debauches, deckhands, demarches, detachers, diarchies, discharge, dyarchies, escheated, haciendas, hardcores, headaches, headlocks, headraces, headspace, headstock, mustached, purchased, rhachides, scarehead, scraiched, scraighed, scratched, showcased, staunched, stomached, tracheids, unscathed. | |
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