Definition of "chase after" []

• Used other than as an idiom: see chase,‎ after. (verb)
• To pursue someone with romantic intentions; to woo. (verb)

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• "There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to observe it at the time."
• "Most would stay with me—one or two might chase after you—you can outride them, you're lighter and that's a damn good horse, that's why I wanted her, other considerations aside."
• "As I watch my monobrowed hottie chase after a girl he realizes he adores exactly because she is not like the popular girls he is supposed to like, I think, What is this unknown land with customs and values I did not previously know I admired?"