transitive verb
1. : to bring up or out : produce
a tyrant fetched up by frightened capitalists — H.J.Muller
: recall
can fetch up anecdotes on almost any phase of straits historic lore — R.M.Dorson
2. : to make up (as leeway or lost time)
3. chiefly dialect : to bring up : raise , rear
she fetched up three boys
4. : to bring to a stop
he was fetched up short by a stop light
intransitive verb
: to come to a standstill, stopping place, or result : end up : stop
fetched up suddenly against the wall
: arrive
it was enough to make the voyage at all, and indeed he should have fetched up in Virginia — Alan Villiers
: conclude
counted the wooden boxes … and fetched up with fourteen — Frederick Way