chase down

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Verb

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chase down (third-person singular simple present chases down, present participle chasing down, simple past and past participle chased down)

  1. to pursue and apprehend someone or something.
    • 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC[1]:
      With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine.
  2. (by extension) to investigate the cause of something