Definition of Snatching

1. Verb. (present participle of ''snatch'') ¹

2. Noun. The act by which something is snatched. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Snatching

1. snatch [v] - See also: snatch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snatching

snatch and runs
snatch block
snatch blocks
snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
snatch the pebble
snatch up
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
snatchable
snatched
snatched the pebble
snatcher
snatchers
snatches
snatchier
snatchiest
snatching
snatchingly
snatchings
snatcht
snatchy
snath
snathe
snathes
snaths
snattock
snattocks
snavel
snaw
snawed

Literary usage of Snatching

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Great Riots: An Illustrated History of the by Joel Tyler Headley (1882)
"DOCTORS' KIOT, nsa Body-snatching.—Bodies dug up by Medical Students. ... IN former times " body-snatching," or digging up bodies for dissections, ..."

2. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"Snatching it up, and melting and moulding it quickly, she carried it to her husband and said: " Here is a ball run out of the Indians' lead; send it back to ..."

3. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1887)
"... like sea-waves, had tossed but on its surface—this same moral energy is represented as snatching him aloof from all neighbourhood with her dishonour, ..."

4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"Under the Georgia Penal Code of 1910, § 149, the crime of robbery may be committed by the sudden snatching of property from the person of another. ..."

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