snatch

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

snatches

V_ing/Gerund

snatching

V_ed/pp

snatched

1.
(transitive)To grasp and remove quickly.
He snatched up the phone.
She snatched the letter out of the secretary's hand.
2.
(intransitive)To attempt to seize something suddenly.
to snatch at a rope
Đồng nghĩa: grab
3.
(transitive)To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
to snatch a kiss
1731-1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays when half our knowledge we must snatch, not take
4.
(informal, transitive)To steal.
Someone has just snatched my purse!
Đồng nghĩa: steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, burgle, burglarize, borrow, cheat, chore, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, gilravage, half-inch, heave, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kipe, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, mooch, moonlight requisition, nick, nip, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pinch, pillage, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, relieve, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, sniggle, snitch, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
5.
(broadly, figuratively, informal, transitive)(transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
6.
(informal, transitive)To do something quickly in the limited time available.
He snatched a sandwich before catching the train.
He snatched a glimpse of her while her mother had her back turned.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

snatches

1.
A quick grab or catch.
The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
2.
A short period.
3.
(weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
4.
A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
5.
(slang, vulgar)(vulgar slang) The vulva.
Đồng nghĩa: cunt, twat
6.
(aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
7.
(dated)A brief period of exertion.
8.
(dated)A catching of the voice.
9.
(dated)A hasty snack; a bite to eat.
10.
(dated)A quibble.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

grab steal abduct abstractappropriatebag banditbash and grabbone boost burgleburglarizeborrow cheat chorecommandeerconfiscateconvert cop cozen

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English snacchen, snecchen (to snap; seize), from Old English *snæċċan, *sneċċan, from *snakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *snakjaną (to whiff, sniff, catch wind of; to taste-test, nibble), related to and *snakkōną (to blather, jabber, chatter).