What is another word for snatches?

Pronunciation: [snˈat͡ʃɪz] (IPA)

Snatches can have several synonyms depending on its usage. It can mean to take quickly, and the synonyms that can be used are seize, grab, grasp, clutch, or take. Snatches can also mean a brief moment of time, and the synonyms that can be used are moment, instant, second, minute, or jiffy. Additionally, snatches can represent a small amount of something, and the synonyms that can be used are a bit, a trace, a hint, a pinch, or a speck. Snatches can also represent a sudden removal, and the synonyms that can be used are plucking, yanking, pulling, or grabbing. Lastly, snatches can mean a feat of lifting weights, and the synonyms that can be used are rep, lift, jerk, heave, or push.

What are the paraphrases for Snatches?

Paraphrases are restatements of text or speech using different words and phrasing to convey the same meaning.
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
- highest relevancy
- medium relevancy
- lowest relevancy

What are the hypernyms for Snatches?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Snatches

In snatches her words repeated themselves over in his mind as he gazed.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
She turns to the mirror, smooths back her heavy hair, shakes her head, snatches off the ribbon and throws it on the floor.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
He snatches it from her and throws it on the bed, then he pushes her out in the middle of the floor.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma

Famous quotes with Snatches

  • My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
    Ovid
  • A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
    Helen Rowland
  • I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.
    Conrad Veidt
  • My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell

Word of the Day

inconstructible
The word "inconstructible" suggests that something is impossible to construct or build. Its antonyms, therefore, would be words that imply the opposite. For example, "constructible...