snatch
nab
snavel
chop
snap
grabble
whip up
catch up
grasp
grab
pounce
swoop
assay
go for
bash
creepshot
pass
stab
try
grabbing
beclap
arrestingly
upsnatch
wrest
fly upon
take time by the forelock
take it into one's head
go
snead
take
outsnatch
have a go
hack
grabbily
trussing
lick
regrab
clutch
fist
crack
seizing
resnatch
dak
kick at the can
upsteal
rape
essaying
whip out
snaffle
bid
upspurt
whisk off
have a stab
outreaching
whisk away
ettle
lash
whim
wet fly
glom
ravishing
goal
give it a try
seize upon
strike in
take hold
predate
misgrab
snatchable
unplunge
bounce
jump out
crimp
start out
skite
grabbable
go so far as
jump
startle
snatching
take by storm
twitch
give something a try
mint
fling
start
sticky fingers
have a crack at
lock up
bust a move
questing
apprehension
trussing
snatchable
grabbable
arrestingly
grabbily
wet fly
swoop
bash
pass
stab
try
grabbing
grab
go
snead
hack
lick
fist
crack
seizing
snap
essaying
outreaching
lash
ravishing
goal
skite
snatching
fling
sticky fingers
questing
apprehension
snatch
nab
snavel
chop
snap
grabble
whip up
catch up
grasp
grab
pounce
assay
go for
creepshot
beclap
upsnatch
wrest
fly upon
take time by the forelock
take it into one's head
take
outsnatch
have a go
regrab
clutch
resnatch
dak
kick at the can
upsteal
rape
whip out
snaffle
bid
upspurt
whisk off
have a stab
whisk away
ettle
whim
glom
give it a try
seize upon
strike in
take hold
predate
misgrab
unplunge
bounce
jump out
crimp
start out
go so far as
jump
startle
take by storm
twitch
give something a try
mint
start
have a crack at
lock up
bust a move
verb
- To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- To steal.
- To take (a victory) at the last moment.
- To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- To grasp and remove quickly.
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
- To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To vary or shift suddenly.
- To remove the final character from (a text string).
- To interrupt; with in or out.
- to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- To stab.
- To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- To seal a license or passport.
- To chap or crack.
noun
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A complete shipment.
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A woodchopping competition.
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A jaw of an animal.
- An IRC channel operator.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
verb
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
noun
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
adj
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
verb
- To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
- To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
verb
- To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
- To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
- To take the opportunity of.
- To consume something quickly.
- To restrain someone; to arrest.
- To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
- To quickly collect or retrieve.
noun
- A sudden snatch at something.
- An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
- A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
- A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
- A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
- A sound bite.
- A simple card game.
verb
- To eagerly seize an opportunity.
- To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
- To attack suddenly by leaping.
- To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
- To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
- To stamp holes in; to perforate.
noun
- Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
- A sudden leaping attack.
- A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
- A punch or stamp.
- Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
noun
- A sudden act of seizing.
- An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
- A quick passage from one note to the next.
verb
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
verb
- To attempt (something).
- To affect.
- To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
- To try tasting, as food or drink.
noun
- Tested purity or value.
- Trial, attempt.
- The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
- The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- Examination and determination; test.
- Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
verb
- To try for, to attempt to reach.
- To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
- To attack.
- To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
- To apply equally to.
- To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
- To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
noun
- An attempt.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- An attempt.
- The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- Criticism.
- A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
verb
- To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
noun
- An attempt.
- A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- A field goal or extra point
verb
- To test someone's patience.
- To put on trial.
- To want
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To put to test.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To attempt to conceive a child.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To taste, sample, etc.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
verb
noun
- An attempt, a try.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
verb
- To seize or capture.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
noun
- A try, an attempt.
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A small amount; a whit.
- A short motif.
- A stroke or blow.
- A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- An act of cunnilingus.
verb
verb
verb
- To seize, as though with claws.
- To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
- To hatch.
- To grip or grasp tightly.
- To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
adj
noun
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
noun
- An attempt at something.
- The pointing hand symbol ☞.
- The act of breaking wind; fise.
- A puffball.
- The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
- A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
- The talons of a bird of prey.
- A person's characteristic handwriting.
- A group of men.
verb
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
verb
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
adj
verb
verb
- To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)
- To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
- To force sexual intercourse or other penetrative sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
noun
- Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
- One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
noun
noun
- An attempt; a go at something.
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adj
verb
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
noun
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
- A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
- The act of placing the object into the goal.
- In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
verb
verb
- To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly.
- To take up, embrace, enact, or turn eagerly to (a plan, idea, ideology, cause, practice, method, etc.); to grasp, understand, and accept quickly; to adopt wholeheartedly or vigorously.
- To take possession of or claim (an idea, person, event, etc.) as one's own; to assimilate, absorb, annex, co-opt.
verb
- To emerge suddenly.
- To exit a loop, function, etc. ending its execution before it has reached its terminating condition.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump, out.
- To be obviously, noticeably different; to capture an observer's attention at once.
- To expel (a member) from a criminal gang.
verb
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
noun
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
verb
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- make a sudden physical attack on
- increase suddenly and significantly
- be highly noticeable
- enter eagerly into
- rise in rank or status
- jump down from an elevated point
- run off or leave the rails
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- cause to jump or leap
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- bypass
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
noun
verb
- To jerk sharply and briefly.
- To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
- To cause to twitch; spasm.
- To perform a twitch; spasm.
noun
- A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
- A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
- The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
- A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
- couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
verb
- To try, attempt; take aim.
- To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
- To create a crypto token.
- To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
- To hint; suggest; insinuate.
- To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
adj
- Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
- In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
- Like new.
- Very good.
- Attractive; beautiful; handsome.
- Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.
noun
- A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.
- A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
- Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
- A green colour, like that of mint.
- A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
- Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
- The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
- Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
- Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
noun
- An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
- An act of throwing, often violently.
- A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
- A lively Scottish country dance.
- An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
- An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
verb
verb
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- set in motion, cause to start
- depart for someplace
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- bring into being
- get off the ground
- get going or set in motion
- begin or set in motion
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- play in the starting lineup
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- bulge outward
noun
- the beginning of anything
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
verb
- To stop moving; to seize.
- To invest in something long term.
- To close all doors and windows (of a place) securely.
- To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning).
- To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze.
- To imprison or incarcerate (someone).
- To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze.
- To stop spinning due to excessive braking torque.
- To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction.
- To cease responding; to freeze.
noun
- The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
- Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
- Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.
- The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
- Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
- The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
English words for 'To attempt to seize something suddenly.'
As you may have noticed, above you will find words for "To attempt to seize something suddenly.". Hover the mouse over the word you'd like to know more about to view its definition. Click 
to find a better fitting word. Finally, thanks to ChatGPT, the overall results have been greatly improved.
Recent Queries
in opposition to
PKO
devious.
to cause repercussions
to signal
to talk one's way out of
quails
A burrow
new disciple
food shortage
A town in Ontario
Kaaba
altered
to jump in
deign.
pulling up
bottoming out
style.
outlandish
living body
reality.
cannot be helped
toleration
social distancing
herbivore
piercingly
toast
losing one's virginity
indwelling
dude
piety
upstairs
lengthy
woody
private use
pool
sideways.
to view
public service
To exhaust
misleading
always.
shaky
regrettably
marijuana
participant
gutter
as much as possible
harmony
fierce