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Chase after   /tʃeɪs ˈæftər/   Listen
Chase after

verb
1.
Pursue someone sexually or romantically.  Synonym: chase.
2.
Go after with the intent to catch.  Synonyms: chase, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail.  "The dog chased the rabbit"






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"Chase after" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, "is not so much what race they belong to, as what chance we'd stand in a race with them if they took it into their heads to chase after us. I've read that ...
— Five Thousand Miles Underground • Roy Rockwood

... were out o' the county on a wil'-goose chase after an inercent man, Peruna, he goes loco on paten'-medicine, an' gits the guilty party. Joke's on you, Slim. I nomernate Peruna ...
— The Round-up - A Romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama • John Murray and Marion Mills Miller

... The chase after the steamer "Harriet Deford," which was captured by pirates, supposedly to supply a means of escape to Jefferson Davis from the crumbling Confederacy—Captain ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith

... George. If the fellow meant to put his 'twopenny' under a 'bus, he would stop it if he could! Across the street and back the hunted creature strode, not groping as other men were groping in that gloom, but driven forward as though the faithful George behind wielded a knout; and this chase after a haunted man began to have ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... was a chase after two convicts, and that we joined in it, and that Gargery took you on his back, and that I took the lead, and you kept up with me as well as ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens


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