snatch
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a small fragment
overheard snatches of their conversation
Types & categories
- fragment hypernym
Sense 2 verb
to grasp hastily or eagerly
Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
obscene terms for female genitals
Types & categories
- female genitalia hypernym
Sense 4 verb
to make grasping motions
the cat snatched at the butterflies
Related & opposite
- snap derivation
Sense 5 noun
(law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
Types & categories
- seizure hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
The industrialist's son was kidnapped
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- abduction derivation
- kidnapping derivation
- abductor derivation
- crime domain topic
Sense 7 noun
a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
Types & categories
- weightlift hypernym
Sense 8 noun
the act of catching an object with the hands
Mays made the catch with his back to the plate
Types & categories
- touching hypernym
- fair catch hyponym
- interception hyponym
- reception hyponym
- rebound hyponym
- shoestring catch hyponym
- interlock hyponym
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fragment |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | snaffle |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | snap |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | snatcher |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | clutch |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | swoop up |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | female genitalia |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | snap |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | abduct |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | seizure |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | abduction |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | kidnapping |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | abductor |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | crime |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | seize |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | shanghai |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | weightlift |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | snatch |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | grab |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | grab |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | snatch |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | grab |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | snaffle |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | touching |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | fair catch |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | interception |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | reception |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | rebound |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | shoestring catch |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | interlock |