2. Noun. The act by which something is snatched. ¹
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Definition of Snatching
1. snatch [v] - See also: snatch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snatching
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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