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upsnatch en · VERB

Etymology

From up- + snatch.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To seize or snatch up.
   • With pity struck, with horror for my deed, The babe upsnatch'd away I bore with speed ; And, knowing Zion should be captive led, Far to these mountains of the East I sped. 1832, Blackwood's magazine, volume 31:
   • With Zephyr from his palace in the west, thou dost upsnatch the Twins from cradled rest, And strain them to thy breast, [...] 1855, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The poets and poetry of America:
   • To her the wood-ivy, like a spirit, hovers round the old hawthorn, and everywhere "mystic Presences of power" "upsnatch" her "to the timeless, then return" her "to the Hour." 1907, Martha Foote Crow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

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