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Verb snap has 12 senses
- snap, snarl - utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; "The sales clerky snapped a reply at the angry customer"; "The guard snarled at us"
--1 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentence:
They snap that there was a traffic accident
- tear, rupture, snap, bust - separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"
--2 is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part
Sample sentences:
The ropes snap
The strong winds snap the rope
- snap, crack - break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The rope snapped"
--3 is one way to break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- snap, click - move or strike with a noise; "he clicked on the light"; "his arm was snapped forward"
--4 is one way to move
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- snap - snap close with a sound; "The lock snapped shut"
--5 is one way to close, shut
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Something ----s
- snap, crack - make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped"
--6 is one way to sound, go
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- snap - move with a snapping sound; "bullets snapped past us"
--7 is one way to move
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- snatch, snatch up, snap - to grasp hastily or eagerly; "Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone"
--8 is one way to seize, prehend, clutch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- snap - put in play with a snap; "snap a football"
--9 is one way to hit
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Somebody ----s something
- snap, click, flick - cause to make a snapping sound; "snap your fingers"
--10 is one way to move
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Somebody ----s something
- break down, lose it, snap - lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped"
--11 is one way to act, behave, do
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Somebody ----s
- photograph, snap, shoot - record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
--12 is one way to record, enter, put down
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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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