SNATCHED

Definition: SNATCHED

SNATCHED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Snatch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SNATCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Crosswords: SNATCHED

English words defined with "SNATCHED": Arreptitious ♦ clumsily ♦ snap, snatch, snatch up. (references)

Specialty definitions using "SNATCHED": Jeuel ♦ Luck of Eden Hall ♦ Whip-dog Day. (references)

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Modern Usage: SNATCHED

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Somebody snatched it. Uh, let's see who do we know that's dead? (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart) And now the captain and Zo� are off springin' the others who got snatched by the feds. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)
Movie/TV Titles	Snatched from the Altar (1915)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SNATCHED

Domain	Title
Books	Great Sayings by Great Lawyers: Immortal Thoughts Snatched from Oblivion (reference) On the Wall Off the Wall: The Official Collection of the All Time Best Office Graffiti Snatched from the Walls of Corporate America (reference) Snatched away (reference) Snatched away! (reference) Snatched by a Killer Wave: And Other Fascinating Tales of Destroyers of the Sea (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Snatched (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	All But Snatched Away (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: SNATCHED

Author	Quotation
Anna Letitia Barbauld	When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: SNATCHED

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Favourite snatched the paper from his hands.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SNATCHED

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Also noteworthy is the fact that the improving performance of the Intel processors has snatched market share away from RISC/Unix platforms. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SNATCHED

"SNATCHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 73.36% of the time. "SNATCHED" is used about 641 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	73.36%	471	12,566
Lexical Verb (past participle)	23.05%	148	25,903
Adjective (general or positive)	3.58%	23	72,767
Total	100.00%	641	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SNATCHED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
snatched	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SNATCHED

Language		Translations for "SNATCHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		夺走 (Snatching). (various references)

Finnish		hän varasti hetken levon (she snatched a moment of rest). (various references)

German		raffte zusammen, gehascht, gegriffen (gripped). (various references)

Hebrew		חטוף (abducted, hasty, kidnapped, quick, sudden, swift). (various references)

Indonesian		terjambret. (various references)

Italian		accogliticcio (snatched up). (various references)

Korean		� 치기하�". (various references)

Pig Latin		atchedsnay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SNATCHED

Misspellings
	"SNATCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Natchet, santschii, satchet, scatched, skatched. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SNATCHED"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "SNATCHED" (pronounced sna"kht)
3	-a" kh t	attached, detached, dispatched, hatched, latched, matched, mismatched, overmatched, patched, reattached, scratched, thatched, unattached, unmatched.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SNATCHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: stanched.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-n-s-t"
	-1 letter: chanted, chasten, decants, descant, handset, scanted, scathed.
	-2 letters: ascend, ascent, cadent, cadets, canted, cashed, centas, chants, chased, chaste, cheats, dances, deaths, decant, detach, enacts, encash, hances, hanted, hasted, hasten, naches, sachet, scathe, secant, snatch, snathe, stance, stanch, staned, stench, taches, thanes.
	-3 letters: ached, aches, acned, acnes, acted, anted, antes, ashed, ashen, cades, cadet.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-n-s-t"
	+1 letter: chastened, staunched, unscathed.
	+2 letters: decathlons, disenchant, headcounts.
	+3 letters: achondrites, cantharides, despatching, detachments, disenchants, octahedrons, stanchioned, stickhandle.
	+4 letters: anticathodes, candlelights, detachedness, disenchanted, disenchanter, shortchanged, stickhandled, stickhandler, stickhandles, thunderclaps.
	+5 letters: dechlorinates, disenchanters, disenchanting, dodecaphonist, handcraftsmen, handicrafters, indomethacins, stickhandlers.
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