Snatcher

Definition

snatch /snætƒ/ v ၁။ (က) ဆတ္ခနဲ ဆြဲယူသည္၊ လုယူသည္။ It's rude to snatch. ❍ She snatched the letter from me/out of my hand. ❍ He snatched up the gun and fired. (ခ) ~ sth away (from sth) ဆတ္ခနဲ ဖယ္သည္၊ ႐ုပ္သည္။ He snatched his hand away (from the flame). ၂။ (အလစ္) သုတ္သည္။ Somebody snatched my wallet in the supermarket. ❍ The baby had been snatched from its pram. ၃။ အေျခအေနေပးခိုက္ အခြင့္အေရးကို အျမန္ရယူ သည္။ snatch an hour's sleep တစ္နာရီေလာက္ လုအိပ္လိုက္တယ္။ ❍ snatch a meal between jobs ❍ They managed to snatch victory in the last moments of the game. သူတို႔ပြဲၿပီးခါနီးမွေတ့ၿပီး အလုအယက္ ႀကိဳးစားအႏိုင္ယူလိုက္ၾက တယ္။ n ၁။ (usu pl ) (က) သီခ်င္း၊ စကား၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ စသည္ အပိုင္းအစ။ short snatches of song ❍ overhear snatches of conversation. (ခ) ထံု႔ပိုင္းထံု႔ပိုင္း။ sleep in snatches (ie not continuously). ၂။ ဆတ္ခနဲယူငင္ျခင္း။ make a snatch at sth. ❏ snatch at sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ လက္ျဖင့္လွမ္းယူသည္။ He snatched at the ball but did not catch it. ၂။ အရယူရန္ သဲသဲမဲမဲ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ snatch at every opportunity. ❏ snatcher n (often in compounds) လုေျပးသူ။ အလစ္ သုတ္သမား။ a baby snatcher ❍ a handbag snatcher.

Examples

1. Her brother snatched the letter and tore it open.
2. Katherine angrily snatched her hand out of his grasp.
3. Someone snatched my bag on the train.
4. A newborn baby was snatched from a hospital ward.
5. They managed to snatch a few hours’ sleep.
6. I snatched a glance at my watch.
7. They snatched victory with a goal in the last minute.