Dictionary Entry
snatch
snatch is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
- 2noun
To seize and transport away; to rap.
- 3intransitive verb
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
- 4noun
A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.
- 5noun
A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.
- 6noun
A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.
- 7noun
The handle of a scythe; a snead.
- 8noun
the act of catching an object with the hands
"Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"
"he made a grab for the ball before it landed"
- 9noun
a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- 10noun
(law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
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- 11noun
obscene terms for female genitals
- 12noun
a small fragment
"overheard snatches of their conversation"
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- 13verb
to make grasping motions
"the cat snatched at the butterflies"
- 14verb
to grasp hastily or eagerly
"Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone"
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- 15verb
take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
"The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
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