Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spelling of
snapped , preterit and past participle of snap.
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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
snap .
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Examples
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Ai thot, maabee teh gaytur iz bein throwd intu teh wadder, n dey snapt teh pixshur jus b 4 it hit teh wadder, but den it lux lyke the gayturz tayl haz bin swishin inna wadder 4 2 lawng, az if it wuz suspendeded sumhow.
Spring Break!!!1!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Historians say, that her sin was written upon her judgment, who some time thereafter was dancing upon the ice, and it broke, and snapt the head off her; her head danced above, and her feet beneath.
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Over this is the head of a white lily snapt short off, and just falling from the stalk; and this inscription over that, between the principal plate and the lily:
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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And Sally, on this occasion, with an affected and malicious laugh, snapt her fingers at me, and pointing two of each hand forkedly at me, bid me remember the lines I once showed her of my favourite Jack Dryden, as she always familiarly calls that celebrated poet:
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Miss B. would never have committed herself as that imprudent Amelia had done; pledged her love irretrievably; confessed her heart away, and got back nothing — only a brittle promise which was snapt and worthless in a moment.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Eternal sorrow sat upon his face as he bent down and kissed the forehead of the boys, who from that hour withered like flowers snapt upon the stalk.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Eternal sorrow sat upon his face as he bent down and kissed the forehead of the boys, who from that hour withered like flowers snapt upon the stalk.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Eternal sorrow sat upon his face as he bent down and kissed the forehead of the boys, who from that hour withered like flowers snapt upon the stalk.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Pierced through his side, and there snapt, and remained.
Idylls of the King 2004
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Faire Ladies, I have bene so often checkt and snapt, for my yesterdayes matter and argument of discoursing, which was both tedious and offensive to you; that if I intended to make you any amends, I should now undertake to tell such a Tale, as might put you into a mirthfull humour.
The Decameron 2004
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