SNATCH UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snatch up mean? 

• SNATCH UP (verb)
  The verb SNATCH UP has 1 sense:

1. to grasp hastily or eagerly

  Familiarity information: SNATCH UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNATCH UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To grasp hastily or eagerly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

snap; snatch; snatch up

Context example:

Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone

Hypernyms (to "snatch up" is one way to...):

clutch; prehend; seize (take hold of; grab)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "snatch up"):

swoop; swoop up (seize or catch with a swooping motion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine created a magnetic wire that could, in theory, be inserted into a person's vein, where it could snatch up tumor cells that had been magnetized by special nanoparticles.

(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)