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- DictionarySnap/snap/
verb
- 1. break or cause to break suddenly and completely, typically with a sharp cracking sound: "guitar strings kept snapping"
- 2. (of an animal) make a sudden audible bite: "a dog was snapping at his heels"
noun
- 1. a sudden, sharp cracking sound or movement: "she closed her purse with a snap"
- 2. a hurried, irritable tone or manner: "“I'm still waiting,” he said with a snap"
adjective
- 1. done or taken on the spur of the moment, unexpectedly, or without notice: "a snap judgment"
1. a. : to make a sudden closing of the jaws : seize something sharply with the mouth. fish snapping at the bait. b. : to grasp at something eagerly : make a pounce or snatch. snap at any chance. 2. : to utter sharp biting words : bark out irritable or peevish retorts.
Snapped definition: broken suddenly and with a sharp cracking sound. See examples of SNAPPED used in a sentence.
1. To snatch at with the teeth or mouth; bite: The turtle snapped the lettuce from my hand. 2. To pull apart or break with a snapping sound.
(Definition of snapped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of snapped. snapped. For half an hour, as she tried to shoo them away, a pack of pit bulls snarled and snapped at her metal door. From Los Angeles Times.
(Definition of snapped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
to cause something that is thin to break suddenly and quickly with a cracking sound: You'll snap that ruler if you bend it too far. snap something off Some vandal's snapped off my car aerial again. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to break. break I didn't mean to break your phone. fracture Last year he fractured his skull.
to break suddenly, especially with a sharp, cracking sound, as something slender and brittle: The branch snapped. to act or move with quick or abrupt motions of the body: to snap to attention. to take a photograph, especially without formal posing of the subject.
If you snap something into a particular position, or if it snaps into that position, it moves quickly into that position, with a sharp sound.
[intransitive, transitive] to move, or to move something, into a particular position quickly, especially with a sudden sharp noise. + adj. The lid snapped shut. His eyes snapped open. + adv./prep. He snapped to attention and saluted. The plastic pieces snap together to make a replica of a dinosaur. snap something + adj. She snapped the bag shut.
to secure, judge, vote, etc., hastily: They snapped the bill through Congress. to cause to make a sudden, sharp sound: to snap one's fingers. to crack (a whip). to bring, strike, shut, open, operate, etc., with a sharp sound or movement: to snap a lid down. to address or interrupt (a person) quickly and sharply.
