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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

... One, therefore, he placed carefully upon the bank, and then passed over with the other in his arms. This effected, he laid it upon the ground, and returned immediately for the remaining child. But in the midst of the river, accidentally glancing his eye back, he beheld a wolf hastily snatch up the child, and run with it into an adjoining wood. Half maddened at a sight so truly afflicting, he turned to rescue it from the destruction with which it was threatened; but at that instant a huge lion approached the child he had left; ...

— Mediaeval Tales • Various

... conscious of one clear thing in her mist of unhappy bewilderment—that Bob must not know: Bob, who would probably leave his job of skimming through the air of her beloved France after the Hun, and snatch an hour to fly to England and annihilate the entire Rainham household, returning with Cecilia tucked away somewhere in his aeroplane. It was a pleasant dream, and served to carry her through more than one hard moment. But it did not always serve; ...

— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... was color coming and going in her cheeks, her fingers trembled,—how they longed to snatch Helena!—and her mind was full of indecision. Mr. John watched her closely, and he thought he saw the tide turning in favor of her girlhood. He held the doll nearer that it might tempt her fingers; but, on the instant, she turned ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - No 1, Nov 1877 • Various

... for which he had Jewish authority. He returns then to his Hellenistic guides and extracts the few scattered incidents which he could find there referring to the Jewish people. But until he comes to the reign of Antiochus, he can only snatch up some "unconsidered trifles" of doubtful validity. Seleucus Nicator, he says, made the Jews citizens of the cities which he built in Asia, and gave them equal rights with the Macedonians and Greeks in Antioch. This information he would seem to have derived from the petition which ...

— Josephus • Norman Bentwich

... from Paris utterly disgusted with life, sick with himself. Bitterly resentful against fate for creating such a tangled skein, and dangling happiness in front of him only to snatch it away again. He went up to Arranstoun and tried to play his part in the rejoicings at his return. He opened the house, engaged a full staff of servants, and filled it with guests. He shot with frantic eagerness for one week, and then with ...

— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn

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