0 past simple and past participle of chase
1 to hurry after someone or something in order to catch him, her, or it:
2 to hurry or run in various directions:
3 to try to get something that is difficult to get or achieve:
4 to run after a person or an animal in a threatening way in order to make him, her, or it leave:
The thieves easily outran the policewoman who was chasing them.
He drove through the red lights in an attempt to shake off the police car that was chasing him.
Dad chased him into the garden.
Other workers in the vicinity of the ant being chased would often attempt to catch the wasps.
Too often our colleagues have chased the leading edge of the wave of (sub)urban development.
Shapely sentences, sparkling epigrams, brilliant dialogue chased nimbly through her travailing brain.
