• SNATCH

1. s. Act of catching hastily, captura, or by the verb. By snatches (i. e., at intervals), per intervalla (Plin., 8, 42, 66); perhaps carptim; per intermissa spatia. Snatches of sunshine, *sol interdum nubibus interfulgens.

2. v. rapere. To snatch at, captare: prehendere: to snatch from, eripere; adimere; auferre (to take away unjustly); avellere: divellere (to tear away); extorquere (to wrest from the hands; PROP. and figuratively; e.g., alicui regnum); alicui eripere de (or e) manibus (PROP. and figuratively): to snatch from the mother’s arms, aliquem de amplexu matris avellere, or de complexu matris abripere: to snatch one from danger, from death, eripere ex periculo, a morte; from destruction, servare aliquem ab interitu.