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词汇 snatched
释义 snatched
adjective
uk /snætʃt/ us /snætʃt/

snatchedadjective (TAKEN QUICKLY)


taken or done quickly when there is an opportunity between doing other things:
Most of the research was done during snatched moments between exhausting shifts as a trainee hospital doctor.
Her meetings with local journalists were usually snatched conversations in car parks.
As a stay-at-home mother, she allowed herself snatched moments of solitude.
We talked over a snatched lunch in the canteen.
They had a few snatched minutes together before she had to leave.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Short in time
abbreviated
at a moment's/two hours'/three weeks', etc. noticeidiom
awhile
be short noticeidiom
bite-sized
blink
bout
brief
dose
in small dosesidiom
in the blink of an eyeidiom
instant
jiffy
mayfly
minute
shortness
split second
transient
transiently
trice

snatchedadjective (ATTRACTIVE)


slang
(of a person) very attractive, especially as a result of doing something to improve their appearance, for example, putting on make-up or exercising:
I'd just got a spray tan and was looking snatched.
Everyone was saying that my make-up looked good and my face was snatched.
He looks so snatched in that outfit!
They wear very tight clothes just because they want to look snatched.
Why are you at the gym? Your body is already totally snatched.
I'll teach you how to achieve that supermodel snatched makeup look.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Attractive
adorable
adorably
adorbs
aesthetic
aesthetically
delicate
disarming
disarmingly
distinguished
dreamy
lovable
lovably
loveliness
lovely
lusciously
stunning
stunningly
suave
suavely
suit

Examples of snatched


snatched
I am glad to have the opportunity in the final debate before the recess to raise the subject of the problem of tracing snatched children.
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Finally, there is a third deficiency, and that is the question of the tracing of snatched children.
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I have made some inquiries as to this possibility but have concluded that since there are some 20,000 schools, it would not be a practicable way of tracing snatched children.
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Port came back to trail by only two points going into the last quarter of the game and snatched victory by three points.
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Karthik, in return, accompanies her to a police station to get back her snatched handbag.
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He was also accused of snatched a club from a policeman and hit the policeman with it.
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At present, the head of elderly than figure how one of the arms of his shield heraldry, demonstrate and perpetuates in all fairness the snatched title.
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Soren and other snatched owlets are enslaved into tasks such as sorting eggs and pellets, for reasons they don't quite understand.
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