Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A taking or snatching away by force.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A snatching away.

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  • noun obscure Sudden snatching away.

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  • The circumstances which gave occasion for this extraordinary ereption were as follows:

    Pyrrhus Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

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  • To snatch away.

    May 15, 2008