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verb

Snatch v. t. (past & past part. snatched; pres. part. snatching)

To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. "When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take."

To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven."

Synonyms: To twitch; pluck; grab; catch; grasp; gripe.

Snatch v. i. To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.

noun

Snatch n.

A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.

A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower. "They move by fits and snatches."

A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap. "We have often little snatches of sunshine." "Leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer."

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Etymology of 'Snatch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Snatch" Quotes from Famous Books

... gust of wind brings clearly a last snatch of the air that Francois is playing in the distance. Lincoln raises his bead and listens, smiles whimsically to himself, and ...

— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay

... map, with himself as steward. It was only a year ago in Germany that a former high-placed German statesman admitted to me that one of the few fundamental mistakes that the Iron Chancellor ever made was to permit Leopold to snatch the Congo from under the very eyes and hands of Germany. I quote this episode to show that when it came to business Leopold made every king in Europe look like an office boy. Even so masterful a manipulator of men as Cecil Rhodes failed with him. Rhodes sought ...

— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson

... far as the ancient town of Newcastle, where he smiled at a facetious Northumbrian, who at dinner caused the beef to be eaten before the broth was served, in obedience to an ancient injunction, lest the hungry Scotch should come and snatch it. On his way back he saw, what proved to be prophetic of his own fortune—the roup of an unfortunate farmer's stock: he took out his journal, and wrote with a troubled brow, "Rigid economy, and decent industry, do you ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... disease, for finding him when his own mother had given him up for dead, and restoring him to the bosom of his family. It looks as though they feared that this old man, already trembling on the brink of the grave, would snatch some comfort for his remaining days out of the pittance that he might hope to collect from this vast estate for services that ought to be beyond price. It looks as though hatred and jealousy were ...

— Burnham Breaker • Homer Greene

... will listen to my proposal. The papers you are so anxious about are here,"—tapping the envelope on the table. "No, don't try to snatch them; you wouldn't get out of here alive with them, lacking my leave. Such of them as relate to your complicity in the Universal Oil deal are yours—on one condition; that your health fails and you get yourself ordered out of the State for ...

— The Grafters • Francis Lynde

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